Download or read book Distilled in Washington written by Becky Garrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories to Savor Washington has a tortured history with liquor. Efforts to ban or restrict it date back to1854, before the region even attained statehood, with blue laws remaining on the books well into the twentieth century. From Jimmie Durkin, an enterprising saloon owner, to Roy Olmstead, a former Seattle cop turned gentleman bootlegger, the business of liquor has inspired both trouble and innovation. Join author and journalist Becky Garrison as she traces the history of the barrel and the bottle from early settlement to the modern craft distilling boom in the Evergreen State.