States

Two ledgers per state. Where the label says the whiskey was distilled, and where the house that filed it keeps its address. They are different facts and stay in different columns.

By state of distillation 9738 read labels state one

Counted only when the label prints it: “distilled in Kentucky”, a distiller’s address, or a state in the class statement (marked as such). A page opens at 3.

State	Distiller named	State only	Total
Kentucky	748	2645	3393
Indiana	223	1529	1752
Tennessee	186	246	432
Texas	220	126	346
Wisconsin	207	69	276
New York	177	81	258
Michigan	155	96	251
Colorado	170	66	236
California	114	109	223
Pennsylvania	151	67	218
Missouri	109	69	178
Virginia	69	94	163
North Carolina	89	70	159
Ohio	65	93	158
Illinois	105	22	127
Washington	91	35	126
Maryland	100	22	122
Iowa	77	42	119
Oregon	75	29	104
Minnesota	81	22	103
Florida	66	36	102
Wyoming	68	4	72
Georgia	34	28	62
Montana	58	3	61
Arizona	52	5	57
South Carolina	36	10	46
Massachusetts	42	3	45
New Jersey	34	8	42
Utah	18	23	41
West Virginia	20	20	40
Nebraska	33	6	39
Vermont	21	15	36
Alabama	27	7	34
Kansas	18	14	32
Louisiana	25	7	32
Nevada	23	7	30
Connecticut	25	4	29
New Hampshire	23	2	25
Mississippi	23	1	24
Oklahoma	7	17	24
Arkansas	12	8	20
District of Columbia	1	17	18
New Mexico	10	6	16
Alaska	14	1	15
Idaho	8	6	14
Rhode Island	9	1	10
Maine	5	2	7
South Dakota	2	5	7
North Dakota	5	0	5
Delaware	2	2	4
Hawaii (fewer than 3, no page yet)	2	0	2
KY-MD (fewer than 3, no page yet)	0	2	2
KY; TN (fewer than 3, no page yet)	0	1	1

By bottler’s state 14006 filings

The applicant’s address on the filing, every filing, read or not. It says where the house is, not where the whiskey was made; the column above answers that only when the label does.

State	Filings from here	Labels stating distillation here
Kentucky	4115	3393
California	720	223
Tennessee	635	432
Texas	632	346
Michigan	542	251
Colorado	540	236
Pennsylvania	497	218
New York	495	258
Missouri	474	178
Florida	387	102
Wisconsin	375	276
Georgia	362	62
Indiana	343	1752
Virginia	290	163
Ohio	283	158
Illinois	251	127
North Carolina	243	159
Minnesota	230	103
Maryland	227	122
Oregon	224	104
Washington	195	126
Vermont	161	36
Iowa	143	119
South Carolina	128	46
Utah	120	41
Louisiana	112	32
Massachusetts	107	45
Wyoming	101	72
New Jersey	97	42
Rhode Island	97	10
Connecticut	93	29
Arizona	86	57
Montana	77	61
Nevada	65	30
West Virginia	60	40
Alabama	58	34
New Hampshire	53	25
Kansas	52	32
Oklahoma	48	24
Nebraska	45	39
Arkansas	42	20
New Mexico	39	16
South Dakota	34	7
Mississippi	29	24
District of Columbia	27	18
Idaho	24	14
Alaska	19	15
Maine	12	7
North Dakota	9	5
Delaware	4	4
Hawaii	4	2

The Rickhouse Report

Every Monday: the week's new American whiskey labels, with what each label says about who distilled it.