Local residents have known since the 1740s we're sitting atop large aquifers brimming with limestone rich water. In fact, there's an old joke that our water is so hard if you throw it at the barn window, it will break the window. Luckily for us, water with high amounts of dissolved limestone (especially limestone with… Continue reading Lancaster County Limestone
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Dick Stoll Quoted in Daily Beast by Lew Bryson
Is the Secret to Kentucky Bourbon Limestone Water?" BY LEW BRYSON. "...I grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, and limestone bedrock literally poked up through the grass in my neighbor’s yard. Our well pumped water that was so hard you could taste it. They produced whiskey not far away, at a distillery that’s since closed down:… Continue reading Dick Stoll Quoted in Daily Beast by Lew Bryson
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