The Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 was originally created to ensure the quality of whiskey and eliminate whiskey producers from adding dangerous flavorings and coloring agents such as paint thinner, iodine, and tobacco – a common practice at the time for profit. Grover Cleveland, who signed the Bottled-in-Bond Act into law in 1897, spent his summers at his Tamworth home, located only three miles from Tamworth Distilling & Mercantile. The Bottled-in-Bond act states that all whiskey must be the product of one distilling season, one distiller, and at one distillery, bottled at 100 proof and aged in a government bonded warehouse for at least four years. Old Man of the Mountain is an ode to the rich history of this small, iconic New England community known for its abundance of agricultural wealth, and as the home to some of the most innovative minds of 20th century.