Comments on: OLD OVERHOLT RYE & THE 30 SECOND STAREDOWN

By: cee dubbles

cee dubbles — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:57:42 +0000

Nothing like rye whiskey. Rye is what makes Knob Creek worth dringking. My other go to is Wild Turkey 101 proof Rye with the green label. Killing a cold right now with lemon clove honey and boiling water, topped with a healthy dose of OO.

By: mizterZ

mizterZ — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:50:04 +0000

Drink it straight, you yella livered polecats! The way the boys used to in the West..

By: Bud Tompkins

Bud Tompkins — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:51:25 +0000

I grew up in Western PA and knew some Overholts… but alas, America and especially Southwestern Pennsylvania, forgets and neglects its history (unless it has something to do with the Steelers). I regret to say that here in the birthplace of fine American whiskeys – the home of the Whiskey Rebellion – Pennsylvania’s State Store monopoly has phased out Old Overholt in favor of Jim Beam and Wild Turkey ryes. Now you have to drive to West Virginia to get a good Manhattan… Imagine that !!! I spoke to a friend who is an executive for the LCB about this, and being a good bureaucrat, he gave me an answer that promptly put me to sleep. I’m still not sure what he said…
Next thing you know, they’ll start brewing Rolling Rock in St Louis… oh wait…

By: Joyce Overholser Boles

Joyce Overholser Boles — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:49:32 +0000

Abraham Overholt was a distant cousin of mine, seven generations back. Our branch out here in Oregon spells it Overholser.

Glad to hear his product is so well loved. Old Overholt may be the most distinguished piece of creativity to come from the tribe.

Other than the Stealth F117A, that is. Denys Overholser was the man who discovered the trick for making planes invisible to radar.

Denys is otherwise totally OK, and probably does not drink whiskey. Most of the tribe does not.

Tis a pity, for maybe we would all be more creative if we did.

By: Edtugman

Edtugman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:51:50 +0000

Hey Bill, I spent my later teen years growing up near Sharon, PA and Youngstown, Ohio. My old man worked for U.S. Steel at several mills, including the now shuttered “McDolad Works”. The “Shenango Valley” and the “Mahoning Steel Valley” at that time still had thousands of hard working, salt of the earth steelworkers employed. A good rye whiskey was a staple in that area — not bourbon, not Canadian Whiskey and Vodka was a broad’s drink. Soon to graduate from high school, after my last last football game played, I went to a fellow player’s house for a get together. His Dad worked with mine at the mill and said “Boys, you played hard and shoulda won. But you didn’t, so now you know a little about what it’s like to be a steelworker. For that, you get my best…” as he reached under the counter and brought out a dark brown bottle with an off yellowish label. “Rye & ginger is what we drink around here, including your Dad, too.” OK, I said, as I watched him mix several glasses with the amber liquid and just a splash of Vernon’s Ginger Ale (Good stuff, too, I miss it). “Why do you all drink this?” I asked, unschooled in the Steel Valley’s first choice of libation. Mr. Stephanoski took a good drink from his glass and said “Well, a good Rye Whiskey is honest. Not mixed with a bunch of other junk to mask it’s true intended character. Sort of like the men who work here. The bit of Ginger Ale gives it just a little civility — it flows well together. Again, like the steel men here, a little civility raises them to a more noble taste, an aquired taste. Raise your glasses boys, you’re becoming men.” As I tasted my first Overhold and Ginger, it changed my drink preference for the rest of my life. “Here’s a toast we offer after the work shift…” Mr. Stephanowski said, as he raised his glass,”Here’s to our wives and girlfriends — May they never meet!”

By: Warren G Wonka

Warren G Wonka — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:43:12 +0000

Almost all the good-sized liquor stores in Rochester, MN carry Old Overholt, Jim Beam, and Wild Turkey rye. Some carry premium rye.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:18:31 +0000

It is my favorite in an Old Fashion!

By: Quippian

Quippian — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:01:47 +0000

Has anyone noticed that Don Draper’s drink of choice on “Mad Men” is Old Overholt?

Also, Old Overholt makes the best “traditional” Manhattans around.

I buy my Old Overholt at a big, bold, bright and beautiful liquor warehouse in South Carolina.
I make my Manhattans with Old Overholt.
And I drink a Manhattan almost daily.

Long live Old Overholt!

By: Tom K

Tom K — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:22:14 +0000

While working in SW PA for the old Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division, I had an office that Westinghouse had leased from some local outfit on Route 51 – Sawmill Run Blvd – south of Pittsburgh. The story was that the facility was a former whiskey distillery. My office was a weird setup on the top floor of the main office building. It was located on a sort of “raised platform” overlooking a bullpen where my engineers toiled away. I guess I should have felt like a whiskey baron, since it now appears that the facility may have distilled OO in the old days!

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:52:46 +0000

I was looking for this stuff out hear in California for 17 or 18 years after I read in the history books that it was Tom Horn’s favorite whiskey. I finally found a bar/restaurant in a good cowtown one night just on a whim. A few month’s later I stopped by George Woolf’s(the late-great jockey)old restraunt in Arcadia,after a day at Santa Anita,called”The Derby”and found they always keep a bottle and serve it there. My Pennsylvania bred and raised father-inlaw came over to the house not long after that,and when I showed him the bottle I had bought,he bellowed,”My God,look at that,I haven’t seen a bottle of that in 40 years”.He reached for a shot-glass and took a big swig,and said,”man that is good stuff”! It seems back in his college days at Penn St. and Pitt.U.,he did bartender work to help pay expenses,and Old Overholt was still a hot item back in that part of the country.
I wonder if it still is.
Most places I go too have never even heard of it.Hey,anybody out there no where I can get my hands on a bottle of,Old Overholt Bourbon? Apparently they used to make it bacause I saw an old picture somewhere of a label.Sure would like to try some of that!
Sincerely,