Widow Jane Distillery

Whisky education from Whisk(e)y Advent 2025 (2025-12-20). Summary below; full write-up with sources and images: calendar/2025-12-20.qmd.

Named for a limestone mine in Ulster County, New York (opened 1825) that supplied much of 19th-century North America’s cement; the whisky’s water is sourced from the mineral-rich mine.

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Reproduced from calendar/2025-12-20.qmd (Whisk(e)y Advent 2025).

Widow Jane Distillery is named after a limestone cave in Ulster County, New York. It opened in 1825, and provided much of the cement in North America in the latter part of the 19th century. The water for this whisky is proportedly also sourced from the mine, making it rich in minerals. One wonders whether Sioux Center might also produce good whiskey, given that our water is also “rich in minerals”.