Irish Whiskey Pt. 11: Nothing Can Be Certain Except Death and Taxes
Whiskey Lore: Stories
English - October 10, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsHistory Arts Food kentucky legends scotch tennessee whiskey bourbon history irish stories whisky Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
No one likes to pay taxes, especially distillers. And in the early days, when the government first started reaching into the pockets of farmer-distillers in Ireland, they put a serious face on tax avoidance. Yet distillers found creative ways to avoid these taxes.
It's time to take a deep dive into how Ireland ended up with whiskey taxes and the growing pains and wars that led to more and more government intrusion into the still house.