Kentucky Owl Confiscated Bourbon

On the nose, you’ll experience hints of peach, mature oak, vanilla, and tobacco with aromas of cardamom. The palate fills with spicy oak, peaches and cream, and cinnamon butter while the finish offers herbal notes and lots of spice, rounded off by nutmeg.

• Distillery: Kentucky Owl
• Type: Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
  
• Region: Kentucky, USA
  
• Alcohol: 48.2%
  
• Volume: 700ml
  
• Goes with: Neat or over ice
  

In 1916, as the scourge of Prohibition loomed, the government seized a quarter of a million gallons of Kentucky Owl bourbon and put the company out of business. A century later, the Owl hoots again, resurrected by master blender Dixon Dedman, whose great-great-grandfather founded the brand back in 1879.

This Kentucky Owl Confiscated Bourbon will impress any bourbon whiskey lover. Makes a great personal or corporate gift. Buy here in our online liquor store and get delivered direct to your door, we deliver nationwide.

A Love Story For Bourbon Lovers

Some wedding gifts last a little longer than others - Kentucky Owl was founded in 1879 by a local pharmacist, Charles Mortimer Dedman. He and his new bride received a large parcel of land on the banks of the Kentucky River as a wedding gift from his adopted father, a town judge. After running it by his wife, he decided to build the C.M. Dedman Distillery. For decades, it produced "The Wise Man's Bourbon" under Distilled Spirits Plant Designation “No. 16,” one of Kentucky’s original distilleries and part of a booming industry.

How Prohibition left Kentucky Owl high and dry - For decades, the Kentucky Owl continued to flow until Prohibition put an end to the party. Try as they might, the Dedman family could not hold out against the forces of teetotalism, temperance and eventually, the Feds. In 1916, as total Prohibition loomed, local distilleries had a lot of perfectly good bourbon sitting around. In the case of Kentucky Owl, something like 250,000 gallons of it in various stages of aging. (In today’s dollars, think “$40 million in inventory.”). Federal agents descended on the Dedman’s distillery, seized the bourbon, and shipped it up the river by barge to the state capital in Frankfort for “safekeeping” in a warehouse.

The Site - Kentucky Owl Park will be built at Cedar Creek Quarry in Bardstown. The 420-acre site will boast beautiful lakes with crystal clear, limestone-filtered water that will be used in our whiskey production.

• 91/100 Points - Whiskey Advocate
  
• 8/10 Points - Flaviar (98 votes)