George Washington ran his Whiskey Rebellion command from the Espy House in Bedford, Pennsylvania in October 1794, with about 15,000 militia in the field. The stone house became a National Historic Landmark in 1983. Todd Eichelberger owns it and began bottling under its name in 2023.
Espy House is a blending house, and the address is the point: whiskey named for the room a president worked from while answering a revolt over whiskey tax. Breaking Bourbon traces George 1794 to an undisclosed Indiana distillery, bottled by Bardstown Bourbon Company, and the rye and wheated bourbon to Kentucky. George 1794 is 102 proof, the wheated 96, the rye 94.
