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MELOS MINIS #2

In this article I would like to feature some more of the great California whiskeys. Also, we'll
get into the down side of these bottles, namely the use of decal tax stamps that they had
the nasty habit of putting on the labels. I am not sure why this was done, maybe it was part
of the laws or maybe someone was just a moron. The good thing is that they did not appear
until the later 1930's, so the earlier ones are stamp free. They did use a paper stamp before
the decals, but not on the labels.

Another interesting thing is that many
of these brands can be found in
variations. It's not bad enough that it is
almost impossible to find one of them,
let alone multiples!

Anyway, bottle number one is Olden
Goode Brand Bourbon Whiskey
Bottled by Distillers Distributing as
were the three in the previous article.
The same company gives us Kentucky
Druggist Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
This bottle is in David Spaid's 101
Rare Whiskey Flasks and is a super
bottle!

The last two are Lou Belle from the
Sontag Drug Stores and have orange
and black labels. The Straight Whiskey claims both LA and San Francisco while the
Whiskey just claims Los Angeles. Both of these have the hated decals on the labels. I
searched for over 20 years for this bottle and finally acquired THREE in the space of a few
months.

Finally, in my last article I made a
statement about my favourite bottle.
This is really a tough call and my top
ten list would have about 60 or 80 on it.

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