There is more to American whiskey than bourbon – historic rye is growing in popularity

Whisky is the barrel-aged distilled spirit made of grains produced in Scotland; in Ireland and the United States, they add an “e” to produce “whiskey”.Spirits connoisseurs may be familiar with American whiskey, bourbon, made primarily from corn. But bourbon hasn’t always been the whiskey of choice for Americans. Rye was widely grown in colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s and used to make whiskey known, naturally, as rye.Pennsylvania whiskey was made entirely from rye and called…