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Al Capone's Wisconsin Hideout Up For Auction

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Al Capone's "hideout retreat" in Wisconsin, which has most recently been a restaurant and bar, will be put up for sale with a minimum bid of $2.5 million. The retreat located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin near Couderay spans 407 acres and has its own private lake.

The fieldstone lodge was owned Capone in the 1920s and 1930s during Prohibition and the property is said to have been used as a place where liquor was flown in on planes that landed on the lake. The bootlegged booze was then trucked to Chicago. Chippewa Valley Bank acquired the property after foreclosing on the owner last year. On October 8th the bank will auction off the property which also includes a bunkhouse, caretaker's residences, guard tower and other outbuildings.

[Thanks, Gregg]

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Templeton Small Batch Rye Whiskey

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Spirits

Templeton Rye, a small batch rye whiskey from Iowa, has quite an interesting history; it was first introduced in the 1920s and was made illegally throughout the Prohibition Era. During that time Templeton was at the center of Al Capone's bootlegging empire, and was even shipped to him during his imprisonment at Alcatraz.

The end of the Prohibition came in 1933, but the production of Templeton Rye continued, and the whiskey has only been made privately and in small quantities for loyal patrons since. Templeton Rye launched its first legal product in 2006, and is currently only available in Illinois and Iowa, though that will hopefully change soon.

Following the Prohibition Era recipe, Templeton is aged for more than four years in charred new white oak barrels. While a rye whiskey must by definition be made from a mash containing at least 51% rye, Templeton is made from a mash of more than 90% rye. As the bottle says, it makes for "a smooth finish and a clean getaway."

The unique whiskey presents a rye spiciness and almost bittersweet taste that is found in the rye grain, along with notes of dried fruit, toffee, caramel and allspice. Texturally, the deep amber-colored whiskey is thick and almost chewy. The mellow, yet complex rye has a clean, spicy finish. The rye taste mixed with spiciness and sweet undertones are well balanced, a sign of careful aging.

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Al Capone's Florida House For Sale

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

I love a house with a dark past, so news that Al Capone's Florida house is for sale caught my attention. Capone's winter home is selling for $6.8 million and it's a fixer-upper in need of love. The current owner has lived there for 35 years (he bought it for $56,000) and the walls are cracking, the plumbing is vintage and there is no air conditioning. The Miami Herald reports that the home was originally built for Clarence Busch of the Anheuser-Busch brewing dynasty and sold to Capone in 1928 for $40,000. The home has all sorts of Art Deco details and is a decent deal considering the real estate prices in Miami Beach which is why it looks like it has already been sold. A quick jaunt over to Majestic Properties reveals that the home is listed as pending. You can get an interior peek at the home (oh yes, it's dated all right) through this story done by the Local 10 news station.

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