Drink up…if you’re drinking Prichard’s whiskey. Because, well, it can still be called ‘Tennessee Whiskey.’ The distillery does not have to abide by a law that requires whiskey to be filtered through maple charcoal before being aged in unused charred barrels made out of oak. Distiller Phil Prichard got his exemption after arguing that he shouldn’t have to follow the charcoal filtering requirement, because it does not follow the technique used by his grandfather. Prichard said he feels bad that the exemption gives him ‘the ability to profit as a result of a bad law.’ But, he said he wishes the state would just go back to allowing distillers the same freedom to do business they had before 2013.
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