Yellowstone Bourbon

Yellowstone is an American brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey founded in 1872. It is distilled by the Limestone Branch Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky.

Yellowstone Bourbon
TypeBourbon whiskey
ManufacturerLimestone Branch Distillery
Country of origin Kentucky, United States
Alcohol by volume 46.5
Proof (US)93

History

In 1872, Yellowstone was the name given to an 1854 brand of Kentucky Bourbon produced by the J. B. Dant Distillery (Cold Springs Distillery, Gethsemani, Kentucky).[1]

Yellowstone Bourbon was started by J. B. Dant (son of J. W. Dant) who teamed up with D. H. Taylor and J. T. Williams to found the Yellowstone Distillery and its brand (named after the Yellowstone National Park) sometime in the 1880s. The Glenmore Distillery Company of Owensboro, Kentucky, bought the distillery in 1944 and operated it for several decades.

In 1920, Yellowstone Bourbon was bottled for "medicinal purposes only" during Prohibition.[2]

In the 1960s, Yellowstone was the largest selling brand in Kentucky.[3]

Scotland-based United Distillers & Vintners, which was part of Guinness (and later became Diageo in 1997), bought Glenmore in 1991[4] and promptly shut it down and sold off the Ezra Brooks and Yellowstone brands to the David Sherman Company, which continued to produce both brands.[5] Sherman later approached Heaven Hill about distilling bourbon for the brand and aging it in their Kentucky warehouses. It was then shipped to St. Louis in oak barrels where it was bottled and distributed.

In 1993, the Yellowstone Bourbon brand was sold to Heaven Hill and the distillery was sold to Florida Distillers (now part of Imperial Brands,[6] owned by Belvédère).[7] The brand was immediately re-sold to the David Sherman Company, which was later renamed as Luxco.[7] However, Luxco contracted the brand's production process to Heaven Hill.

In 2006, the David Sherman Company rebranded itself to Luxco as a tribute to one of its co-founders, Paul Lux, and as a reflection of the current ownership of the company.[8]

In 2010, Paul and Steve Beam, descendants of J. W. Dant and the Beam family, founded the Limestone Branch Distillery company. In the spring of 2015, they formed a business partnership with Luxco.[9] The brand is distilled and aged in Kentucky and is bottled in Lebanon, Kentucky.[10]

In April 2021, MGP Ingredients completed its acquisition of Luxco.[11]

Yellowstone Whiskey appears in the 2022 movie Father Stu.

References
  1. F B Thompson, Spirit of Old Kentucky
  2. Kentucky Beverage Journal, November 1956
  3. UD Archives, 992.m.167
  4. C Morris, Glenmore, 15/11/91
  5. Early history of Yellowstone from Straight Bourbon
  6. Imperial Brands, Inc. Announces National Launch Plans for 4 Orange Premium Vodka
  7. Veach, Mike (August 11, 2005). "Yellowstone History". BourbonEnthusiast.com. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
  8. "Early Luxco History". Luxco.
  9. "Limestone Branch Distillery brings Yellowstone back home". Luxco. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  10. "Yellowstone Whiskey from Limestone Branch Distillery". Limestone Branch Distillery. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  11. Carruthers, Nicola (2021-04-06). "MGP completes $475 million Luxco acquisition". The Spirits Business. Retrieved 2023-10-10.


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