Old Overholt Rye Whiskey

Old Overholt Rye Whiskey 750 ML Hard to Find !Old Overholt is a long-produced American rye whiskey distilled by A. Overholt & Co., currently a subsidiary of Beam Inc., at the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. It is one of the few straight rye whiskies available at most liquor stores in the United States. It is aged for three years and bottled at 80 proof 40% alcohol by volume.Old Overholt was originally distilled in Broad Ford, Pennsylvania, 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The company claims to have been established in 1810. The whiskey is named for Abraham Overholt, a farmer and distiller and later, grandfather of the American Industrialist Henry Clay Frick. It was the so-called "medicinal" alcohol of the United States Navy during World War II. It is reputed to have been the alcoholic beverage of choice of the gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday.Old Overholt, among America's oldest whiskey labels, is not what it used to be. Around 1810, Abraham Overholt grandfather of Henry Clay Frick began distilling rye on his farm in western Pennsylvania. When he started a commercial operation, he named the whiskey Old Farm. In 1859, his son built a new distillery to continue production of Old Farm as well as a new spirit named for the Overholt family.Now made by Jim Beam.