Westerville brewery, distillery give nod to city’s role in the Anti-Saloon League and Whiskey Wars

Westerville brewery, distillery give nod to city’s role in the Anti-Saloon League and Whiskey Wars

High Bank Distillery's flagship whiskey is Whiskey War and is on display at the Westerville Public Library's Anti-Saloon League Museum, photographed on July 23, 2025. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal). A war was brewing in Westerville 150 years ago. Henry Corbin opened a saloon in Westerville in 1875, but the people did not want it. “They thought that saloons brought in a bad element, that they would bring in crime, they would bring …