In the 1800s, American apothecaries used “Spiritus Frumenti” to track whiskey in their ledgers. Latin for “Spirit of the Grain” it would later be used as a generic name for medicinal whiskey during Prohibition. Spiritus Frumenti was produced by the George T. Stagg Distillery and other distilleries throughout the 1920s creating many iterations of Spiritus Frumenti.
