Chicken Cock - A Defiant Old Brand

Chicken Cock - A Defiant Old Brand

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An 1856 Paris, Kentucky brand whose ‘chicken cock’ rooster was a 19th-century symbol of defiance. It survived Prohibition by producing in Montreal and smuggling whiskey in tin cans (famed at Harlem’s Cotton Club, noted by Duke Ellington). Lost to a mid-1900s fire; revived in 2011.