Kentucky whiskey, from Bourbon county.
1857. When a barrel of Bourbon, or Monongahela, or Double Rectified was accessible, they forgot even in some instances to ask the politics of its possessor.—T. H. Gladstone. ‘Englishman in Kansas,’ p. 40.
1859. The young man John, for instance, asked me to come up and try some “old Burbon,” which he said was A 1.—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. vii.
