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Stainless Steel Flask - Johnnie Walker
SKU: LOC-FLASK AEStainless steel flask
7 oz
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When John Walker, born on 25 July 1805, lost his farmer father in
1819, the family sold the farm and their trustees invested the
proceeds, £417, in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and
spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Walker managed the grocery, wine and spirits segment as a teenager
in 1820.
The Excise Act of 1823 relaxed strict laws on distillation of
whisky and reduced, by a considerable amount, the extremely heavy
taxes on the distillation and sale of whisky.
By 1825, Walker, a teetotaller, was selling spirits, including rum,
brandy, gin and whisky.
In short order, he switched to dealing mainly in whisky. Since
blending of grain and malt whiskies was still banned, he was
selling both blended malt whiskies and grain whiskies.
They were sold as made-to-order whiskies, blended to meet specific
customer requirements, because he did not have any brand of his
own.
He began using his name on labels years later, selling a blended
malt as Walker's Kilmarnock Whisky.
John Walker died in 1857.