It’s Valentine’s Day, 1990. Dick Stoll, last master distiller at Michter’s distillery near Schaefferstown, Pa., protege of C. Everett Beam, and distiller of the now-vaunted A.H. Hirsch bourbon, receives a call from the bank that holds the note to the once-proud property. After years of mismanagement and financial impropriety under multiple owners, he is told to lock the doors for the last time…it’s over, for good. On that cold februari day, Dick Stoll is the last man standing at the last distillery in Pennsylvania. He is 57 years old.
With a family to provide for and not a lot to...
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