A number of excisemen (Document A) were accosted in the line of duty, tarred and feathered and (in at least one instance) tied up outside overnight in an attempt to coerce them into renouncing their commissions. The conflict dragged on for several years, and when their initial efforts at peaceful non-compliance failed to secure the repeal of the excise, some western Pennsylvanians adopted tactics of violent resistance to the enforcement of the law. At the same time, these meetings adopted resolutions advising individual non-compliance with the law, framing it as an unjust imposition upon the liberties of the people.
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Resistance was best organized in the four western counties of Pennsylvania, whose residents held a series of public meetings to draft petitions urging their representatives to repeal the law. Farmers in the nation’s frontier counties (who commonly turned much of their grain crop into whiskey for easier transportation to eastern markets) bore the brunt of the tax and rapidly made their dissatisfaction with the policy known. Click here for days, times, trucks, and locations.In 1791, the first Congress passed an excise tax on distilled alcohol, the first tax ever levied by the national government on a domestic manufacture. A tradition at Wigle, food trucks are a common appearance year-round. If you also brought an appetite, check the website for the food truck lineup. Recent releases include the Oaxaca Rye, Madeira Finished Bourbon, and Barrel-Rested Gin while the classic favorites from Wigle’s are the famous Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey and Bourbon and Dutch-Style Gin. For more information on the tours and to check dates and times, click here. The tour includes a cocktail, a hands-on look at the distillation process, a history of the Whiskey Rebellion from the perspective of its instigator, Philip Wigle, and a seated tasting of straight spirits. Your guide will walk you through how Wigle’s starts with organic, local grain to produce its award-winning spirits. Wigle Whiskey Distillery and Barrelhouse can be toured in Pittsburgh’s Strip District on Saturdays. Journey to Pittsburgh this summer not only to discover the history of the Whiskey Rebellion at its epicenter but also to experience the mouthwatering flavors where it all started and at the most awarded craft whiskey distillery in the country: Wigle Whiskey. For more information on the Whiskey Rebellion Trail and to purchase passes online, click here. In all, there are seventy-five distilleries along the Whiskey Rebellion Trail that produce everything from gin aged in port barrels and the famous Monongahela to blood orange liqueur and raspberry lavender absinthe. Today, the Whiskey Rebellion Trail allows visitors to explore the birthplace of American whiskey. George Washington himself (President at the time) would lead 13,000 troops against the rebels to prove that the federal government could enforce its laws with military might. But American whiskey was by far the country’s most popular distilled beverage so what became known as “the whiskey tax” rapidly sparked civil disobedience, violence, tax evasion, and intimidation tactics throughout the western states and the frontier.
In 1791, the federal government imposed its first tax on a domestic product: all distilled spirits.
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