Doran documents medicinal-whiskey manufacturing allotments

January 22, 1930

United States; Kentucky; Pennsylvania; Maryland

Provides a dated administrative snapshot of replenishment authority and corrects the common myth of a permanent, exclusive group of six Kentucky distilleries.

Doran’s letter was printed in the Congressional Record on January 23, 1930, page 2235. It says permits did not limit companies to rye or bourbon. Treat the total as an allotment basis, not proof of completed output, and do not convert the list into a permanent roster for all of Prohibition.

Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran reported manufacturing allotments to eleven named concentration warehousemen that were distillers or successors to distillers, on a basis of approximately 2,000,000 gallons or 40,000 barrels.