Elijah Craig, that is. I also came home with a bottle of 12-year old Elijah Craig single barrel Kentucky bourbon from the ABC store. I must admit I bought the stuff primarily because it’s made in Nelson County KY. After researching what I bought, I found the following, from this review of the 18-year old variant

Elijah Craig 18-year-old Single Barrel Bourbon, the oldest Single Barrel Bourbon available in the world, is bottled soley from one barrel hand-selected by Master Distiller Parker Beam. Only a handful of the millions of barrels of Bourbon aging in Kentucky have been allowed to mature this long. The brand is named for Rev. Elijah Craig, the man who discovered the method of making true Kentucky Bourbon when he stored his wares in barrels that had been charred by fire.

A Reverend? Who would have guessed? And they say drinking isn’t educational.

-k-

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