In 1790, Jacob Spears distilled whiskey on the Kentucky frontier and sent it southward by flatboat through the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the port of New Orleans. He is said to be the first distiller to label his product as “bourbon,” effectively coining the term.
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Before Kentucky was known around the world for bourbon, Jacob Spears was making whiskey on the frontier. His sons Abraham and Noah loaded oak barrels onto wooden flatboats and pushed into the current—bound for the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the markets of New Orleans.
Noah is said to have made the voyage thirteen times, returning on foot through the wilderness of the Natchez Trace.
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Barreled July 1, 2016 · 179 bottles
Here ends the chart — the river carried the whiskey to the port of New Orleans, and the journey carried the Jacob Spears name into history.
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