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Article: Admiral Imports Announces Spencerfield Keeps the Spirit of James Anderson, Father of American Whisky, Alive.
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- Pediatrics Week
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- March 7, 2009
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As America celebrates the inauguration of its new President and Washington's Birthday, Scotland raises a toast to James Anderson, Father of American Whisky.
>From Spencerfield Farm on the banks of the Forth, farmer and distiller James Anderson set sail for America in 1791 with his wife and seven children. There he advised George Washington to get into the whisky distilling business and helped America's first President become the country's biggest producer of whisky.
Spencerfield Farm is still in the whisky business today. The Spencerfield Spirit company produces and distributes two brands of whisky, Sheep Dip malt whisky and Pig's Nose, a deluxe blend to ...