REMUS REPEAL RESERVE 750 ML

George Remus 'Repeal Reserve Series 2' straight bourbon whisky, 100 proof. For 13 seemingly eternal years between 1920 and 1933, the United States fell under the influence of the Volstead Act, which outlawed the production, transportation, and sale of beverages with more than 0.5 percent alcohol and gave force to the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution that banned alcohol at the federal level. In the midst of the governmentally mandated break from booze, a daring cast of characters known as bootleggers secretly made, sold, and served drinks to keep spirits high (if that qualifies as a pun, consider it intentional). George Remus, a German-born criminal defense attorney (and pharmacist) who put down roots in Cincinnati, earned a reputation as the “King of the Bootleggers” after he found supposed loopholes in the Volstead Act, bought distilleries and created his own companies under the guise of selling liquor for medicinal purposes, and arranged for his delivery trucks to be “hijacked” by his own employees to supply his burgeoning business. Remus reportedly served as the inspiration for the fictional Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; Remus’s parties (he once presented the men with diamond stickpins and the women with new cars) were second to none. After amassing $40 million in less than three years, the notorious mastermind was convicted as a bootlegger in 1925 and served time in a federal prison.