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The entry cites Emanuel Downing's letters and regional historical records.
Wondrich identifies the 1648 Downing distillery as the earliest clearly documented American grain distilling and links it to a requested German recipe for rye spirit; later Dutch, German, and Scotch-Irish practice and terminology converged in the Mid-Atlantic rather than descending from one national tradition.
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Whisky, rye
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