History of Prohibition Cocktail Class
At 12:01 a.m. on January 17, 1920, America went dry, and few places felt it like Western Pennsylvania. For more than a century, Monongahela rye had been the nation’s whiskey, and our region’s distillers had a long streak of defiance, dating back to 1794, when Philip Wigle was convicted of treason for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion and pardoned by George Washington. Prohibition did what the tax collectors never could: the stills went silent, and Monongahela rye nearly vanished from memory.
The thirst never went away. Pittsburgh stayed famously wet, and bartenders everywhere got creative, giving us some of the most enduring cocktails ever made. When Wigle opened in the Strip District in 2012, it became the first whiskey distillery in Pittsburgh since Prohibition, bringing Monongahela rye home after nearly a century. Join us for classic Prohibition-era cocktails made with our own spirits, paired with just the right amount of history.
Your exclusive ticket to our cocktail class includes:
☄️ Guidance and education on the art of crafting three Wigle Cocktails
🌌 Small bites from the Wigle Kitchen
✨15% off all Wigle Bottles