**FILE** Joe Dangler, master distiller for Virginia Gentleman, checks the temperature on the condensing coil of a copy of an 18th century copper pot still on the site of George Washington's distillery, Oct. 21, 2003, in Mount Vernon, Va. Washington's Mount Vernon estate on Friday, March 30, 2007, officially opened a $2.1 million reconstruction of Washington's original distillery on the exact site where it was located in 1799. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)