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It has been over a year since I last wrote about the whiskey Bill Thomas and I made at Kentucky Artisan Distillers. It has been slow going for many reasons, but it is finally moving close to the end where we will bottle and sell the Bourbon. We have received label approval for Fountain Run Bourbon.

I have chosen the name “Fountain Run” for two reasons. The first reason is that it is an old, pre-Prohibition label that I want to revive. The second reason is that it is the nearest town to the farm where my grandfather farmed and made moonshine in the 1930s and 40s. It took some time to design the label. Bill hired Turner Labels to do the design work and get the government approvals. It is going to be a Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon made with all four barrels of Bourbon. The design is based upon the original pre-Prohibition label. The original label was owned by Shields, May & Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio and was registered in The 1899 Mida’s Criteria Registration of Trademarks as being in use since 1874. 

The new label has been based upon the old design with the newer label requirements added. It will include a green “tax stamp” type seal over the screw cap. On the back will be a label discussing my grandfather, Al Veach, who made moonshine using Hickory Cane corn. The whiskey is over six years old now and hopefully will be bottled in the next month or so. We took the Hickory Cane corn as the base grain for making the Bourbon, along with rye, distiller’s malt and chocolate malt. The whiskey has a very good flavor with notes of coffee and chocolate with some fruit and spice.

I am looking forward to completing this project and bottling the whiskey. We are planning on taking the profits from this whiskey and making some more Bourbon with the same recipe. We are also considering making a rye whiskey under the same name. I will write next about bottling the whiskey and maybe the next chapter, making a rye whiskey.

Photos Courtesy of Rosemary Miller