1938 The Cocktail Hour

'^lifZiJorlds ^ar^est distiller^

To meet the tremendous demand for Hiram Walker &Sons' products in the United States, this famous old house has erected, at Peoria, Illinois, the largest distillery in the world at a cost of over $ 10,000,000. This new distillery, equipped throuqhout with the most modern machinery, occupies thirty- eight acres of ground, and has a capacity of 20,000 bushels of grain per day. Twenty-four fermenting tanks with a capacity of 120,000 gallons each, supply 100,000 gallons of whisky everv 24 hours. The bottling house handles 20,000 dozen quarts every 7 hour day. The magnitude of this enterprise is made possible by the world wide reputation of Hiram Walker for quality and value.