![]() That’s when Luxco acquired the Yellowstone brand, so then it went with Luxco. Diageo decided they didn’t want to be in the bourbon business and shut the distillery down and sold off the brands. Shortly after that, United merged with Guinness and became Diageo. They had it up until the early 90s, and they sold it to United Distillers. Then, it was sold from the Dant family to the Thompson family. It was actually the best selling bourbon in Kentucky in the 1960s and 70s. It was actually licensed through Brown-Forman during prohibition. You could get a prescription for Yellowstone. So, it was branded in 1872, and it has been on the shelf ever since. He came back and he was all excited about this new first national park, and convinced them to name a bourbon after it. Bernard started out making some and then eventually he made all their whiskey. Taylor and Williams sold their whiskey around the country. He was selling to a distributor, Taylor and Williams. It was called Cold Spring in Gethsemani, Kentucky. He started a little bit later than Jacob Beam. TWW: With Yellowstone, talk a little bit about the history of that particular brand and why it’s important to you.īeam: Yellowstone was founded actually by members of my mother’s family. We partnered with Luxco to bring that Yellowstone brand to Limestone Branch. That happened more quickly than I thought it would, within the first three years that we were open, three full years. It was exciting to be able to bring that. My aunt worked there, so we always had Yellowstone around. Yellowstone was the family bourbon at my house. That’s how we got involved with Luxco, who were the owners of Yellowstone. We couldn’t use our own name to bring back one of the family brands back into the mix. It had always been one of my dreams or goals to get one of the family brands back. We started out with our moonshine, a clear spirit, to keep the doors open, and always had been back a little bit of bourbon. We opened the distillery with my brother and other family members. I started doing research and got involved with the American Distilling Institute, with Bill Owens. I went ahead with that career, then eventually came back to Kentucky and was in the restaurant business for a little while, and kept looking back into the distilleries.Īround that time, some small distilleries had started to pop up on the radar. Fritz Maytag of San Francisco (Anchor Distilling) and Dry Fly up in Washington State were some of the first that popped up for me, getting me thinking this could be feasible. ![]() When I graduated college, I really looked into opening a distillery, shelved that idea and went on with my life. My degree is in landscape architecture. Of course, family history was told as well, so it was always of interest to me since I was a young kid fishing in the distillery ponds. ![]() I had aunts and uncles, family members who were all heavily involved in the business. Steve Beam: Sure, well I tell people I grew up around the business, not in the business. ![]()
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