Made from corn, bourbon is America’s “spirited” gift to the world. It was the Rev. Elijah Craig, from Bourbon County, who brewed whiskey from it. It was a short step from calling it Bourbon County whiskey to its current name bourbon.
The name bourbon comes from Kentucky county of that name. Bourbon County was form in 1785.
It was named in honor of the French royal family that supported the United States in its war against England.
In early history, bourbon was as much a means of exchange as a beverage of pleasure.
In Kentucky, early settlers had already begin making a whiskey from corn and the new comers quickly learn how to use this American grain to make what would become known as bourbon.
It soon known as whiskey from Bourbon and eventually bourbon whiskey when it was shipped from Bourbon County in Kentucky to places such as St. Louis and New Orleans.
Bourbon whiskey once was the most popular distilled spirit in the United States, but it began to fall from favor after World War II everywhere except the South, which is known in the beverage industry as “the bourbon” belt”.
In 1965, Congress passed a resolution classifying it as a distinctive national product.
Since the 1980s, bourbon have grown in internationally popularity.
History of Bourbon
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