https://www.forbes.com/sites/fredminnick/2021/03/11/new-200-bourbon-leans-right/ Move over celebrities, politicians are entering the bourbon game.
Well, at least one is.
Longtime Kentucky State Senator Damon Thayer (Republican) has resurrected the brand “Kentucky Senator” that was once owned by Crigler & Crigler, the pre-Prohibition company best known for Woodland and Buffalo Springs Distillery, and later made by Double Springs Distillery. Kentucky Senator was popular, but it never reached the same level of prominence as the likes of Old Crow and Chicken Cock.
Thayer’s hoping to change that.
He is looking to tell the story of past Kentucky senators with each release. On the back label of release one is Kentucky Democrat Alben Barkley, a US Senator from 1927-1949, 1955 and Vice President of the United States under President Harry S. Truman.
Along with his partner Andre Regard, Thayer’s acquired aged bourbon on the open market, and Alben Barkley is a 15-year-old Kentucky Bourbon with a mash bill of 78.5% corn, 13% rye and 8.5% barley. His bottling partner, Bluegrass Distillers, bottled some 1,320 bottles. It’s SRP is $199.
I am honored to have a bottle of the precious liquid that makes up about 50% of my body mass named after me. And a high end brand for 200 dollars, no less!
In all seriousness, I am most definitely gonna have to buy one of these and keep it around as a collectible.
I’m also curious what senators they’ll do next. Henry Clay? John Sherman Cooper? Happy Chandler? Wendell Ford? Even the turtle man?
