Short Mountain Bourbon

Lucky for our customers, Short Mountain isn’t only interested in leaving our mark on the moonshining business.  This Spring, we’re releasing our brand new Short Mountain Bourbon, as well as opening the doors of the Still House Restaurant, a farm to table restaurant featuring locally produced vegetables, meat, and, booze from in and around Canon County.

While Short Mountain Distillery has been known for it’s moonshining since the Civil War era, we’re proud new members of the bourbon brewing business.  So proud of our heritage in fact, we thought we’d give you a little history lesson.

 The legend of bourbon dates back to our great northern neighbor, Kentucky, and the Baptist minister Elijah Craig, who was the first to distill whiskey in charred oak casks, giving bourbon it’s unique reddish color.  His contemporary, Jacob Spears, a resident of the neighboring Bourbon County mimicked the process and was the first to name his whiskey, “Bourbon Whiskey.”

Although these two men may have been some of the first noted bourbon producers, chances are a number of people in late 18^th century rural Kentucky were brewing bourbon.  And boy, are we’re happy our neighbor to the north passed the torch down to us!

The people at Short Mountain, the artisan Nashville distillery, are currently cooking up some extra special barrel aged bourbon courtesy of our friends at Mayday Brewery.  Keep your ears open.  Although our lips are looser than the original moonshiners, word travels fast around Short Mountain when new Tennessee moonshine is on the shelves and we don’t want you to miss out on the next phase, Tennessee bourbon!

Interested in learning more?  Click here.