Old Crow is a relatively low-priced brand of Kentucky bourbon whiskey, distilled by Fortune Brands, which also produces Jim Beam and several other brands of bourbon whiskey. The Old Crow brand has a venerable history as one of Kentucky's earliest bourbons, and is distinctive for being the first sour mash process bourbon whiskey. Old Crow is aged for three years, and in the United States is 80 proof.
James Crow, a Scottish immigrant, started disti...
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Old Crow is a relatively low-priced brand of Kentucky bourbon whiskey, distilled by Fortune Brands, which also produces Jim Beam and several other brands of bourbon whiskey. The Old Crow brand has a venerable history as one of Kentucky's earliest bourbons, and is distinctive for being the first sour mash process bourbon whiskey. Old Crow is aged for three years, and in the United States is 80 proof.
James Crow, a Scottish immigrant, started distilling what would come to be Old Crow in Frankfort, Kentucky, in the 1830s. Reportedly a very skilled distiller, he made whiskey for various employers, which was sold as "Crow" or, as it aged, "Old Crow"--the brand acquired its reputation from the latter. He died in 1856, and while W.A. Gaines & Company kept the name and continued to distill the bourbon according to his recipe, the original distillation died with its creator. The last remaining stock of Old Crow (of which there seemed to have been quite a bit) acquired near-legendary status,...
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