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On top of that, it was available for the low price of about $275 (essentially the fee to file the paperwork). The brand itself was abandoned until 1996 when Joseph (Joe) Magliocco and his friend and mentor Richard (Dick) Newman had found that the rights to the Michter’s trademark had been legally abandoned. The story of Michter’s in Pennsylvania paused on that fateful day in February, 1990, but it didn’t quite end. They took whatever they could find including memorabilia, gift shop decanters and possibly a few barrels of whiskey with them.

Over the course of the next 3 years, locals (and some “self-guided tourists”) slowly vandalized and looted the deserted buildings. The bank was taking over the entire property until unpaid debts were settled. Dick Stoll, who was the Master Distiller of Michter’s at the time, received a phone call from the bank on that day informing him to send everyone home, turn off the lights and lock the doors… for good.

The distillery had closed its doors officially on Valentine’s Day, 1990. The story was before the internet era, but newspapers occasionally reported on the many looters that would scour the abandoned Michter’s Distlllery in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania.

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The story may not have happened exactly like that, but it is based on a secondhand source that recalled an article in the local newspaper about a Delaware driver getting pulled over for drunk driving in the early 90’s with a backseat full of Michter’s decanter jugs.

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