We just toured the Wigle Whiskey distillery on the Southside courtesy of our daughter for Fathers Day and it was a total blast! Meredith, one of the owners & the director of our tour, gave us an awesome history lesson and educated us to a piece of Pittsburgh's past as a major whiskey producer from the late 1700's thru the Prohibition era while engaging us, making us laugh, and thoroughly entertaining us in the process. I'm not even a whiskey (or hard liquor in general) drinker but I enjoyed learning about and sampling their products.\n\nThe tour starts off with a cocktail of your choice from their chalkboard bar menu. I had a spinach, avocado & cilantro whiskey cocktail that just about blew my hair back on the first sip. My first taste reminded me of that strong whiskey burn that I don't particularly like but then the ice started to melt and I realized how much I was enjoying sipping on the cocktail as we took our tour and the drink mellowed.\n\nTheir facility is named for Phillip Wigle who was quite a character from the late 1700's that nearly got hanged in pursuit of making a living turning rye into whiskey and trying to avoid paying taxes on the proceeds. Otherwise known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Pretty cool stuff if you're going to have a history lesson on a Saturday!\n\nThe tour ends with a tasting of their wheat whiskey, rye whiskey, aged rye whiskey, and gin. These folks are turning out some darned good products here! They even have labeling parties for their bottles and apparently there is drinking involved and you may notice some of the bottle labels get put on a bit crooked. Oops!!!