Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry
Jimmy Turner found the bottle in crumpled brown packaging on the top shelf of a closet, behind some other items. It was 2007, his mother had just passed away, and he was cleaning out his parents’ St. Louis home. Turner already knew that his great-grandfather, Joseph A. Magnus, was a distiller in pre-Prohibition days, but inside this long-forgotten bottle was hard evidence: a 100-plus-year-old bourbon that had been passed down through family members over generations.
The discovery set Turner off on a path to learn more about his great-grandfather. It turned out Magnus, who had lived and worked in ...