Old Pogue

Old Pogue is a premium brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. It is bottled a 45.5% abv (91 U.S. proof), Old Pogue is created from a rye mash bill,with nine-year aging. The brand name is privately owned by members of the Pogue family. Old Pogue Bourbon is typically sold at $110 at the distillery. The modern day Old Pogue sells this rendition of the bourbon as a close cousin of the original.[1] This bourbon is typically consumed neat meaning straight from the bottle at room temperature, the purest form of a drink.[2]

History

The Pogues created the bourbon Old Pogue in 1876, it was created many years before the prohibition but was still affected by it. [3][4] Its original distillery was Kentucky registered distillery number 3, in Maysville, Kentucky.[5] However, the brand's distillery was shut down by Prohibition. The Prohibition started in 1920,[6] only 44 years after the Old Pogue Distillery was opened. During the Prohibition the distribution and distilling of alcohol was illegal. [6]Shortly after this many distillers including the Pogues were finding other ways up distribute their alcohol. The only exception to the prohibition was the case of medicinal purposes, because distillation was not allowed they sold a restricted amount of the whisky for medicine.[3] When times became harder and alcohol was at a higher demand than ever, with the help of George Remus, they sold their whisky through bootlegging.[3]It was revived after 18 years and then shut down again during World War II. The brand was then off the market for about 60 years. The brand name was revived around 2005 by descendants of the Pogue family, who re-launched the brand using whiskey purchased from another company before opening their own new distillery. This bourbon has been passed down through six generations of Henry Edgar Pogues (I-VI). It’s still owned by a descendent of the first Henry Pogue.[7]

The family established a new distillery in Maysville around 2012. In 2012, the company joined the Kentucky Distillers Association and the distillery became part of the newly launched "Craft Tour" of its Kentucky Bourbon Trail tourism marketing program.[8][9]

Although the company has established a new distillery, it has not yet been in operation long enough to produce bourbon aged as long as what is used for the brand. The actual production of the brand has been contracted out to Kentucky Bourbon Distillers of Bardstown, Kentucky, which has used spirits distilled at the nearby Heaven Hill distillery for the product.[4][10] Thus, the bottles for the modern (post-2010) brand identify Bardstown rather than Maysville on the label as the origin of the product.

One expression of the brand is a "Master's Select" bottling.

References

  1. "Spirits". The Old Pogue Distillery. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  2. "Bourbon For Beginners: The Best Ways to Drink Bourbon". The Stock & Barrel. 2019-07-07. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  3. "American Whiskey: Maysville, Kentucky and the Pogue whiskey family". www.ellenjaye.com. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  4. Charles K. Cowdery, Non-Distiller Producers; Make The Brands, But Buy The Whiskey Archived 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, American Distiller #89, Reprinted with permission from The Bourbon Country Reader, Volume 10 Number 5 (September 2007). (Access date December 13, 2010.)
  5. History page on official web site.
  6. Editors, History com. "Prohibition". HISTORY. Retrieved 2021-11-18.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  7. "The Old Pogue Distillery:Old Pogue". The Old Pogue Distillery. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  8. Bourbon Trail launches new tour of artisan distilleries, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 12, 2012.
  9. Craft distilleries across the state added to Kentucky Bourbon Trail experience, The Lane Report, October 12, 2012.
  10. Charles K. Cowdery, Who Made That Whiskey?, The Chuck Cowdery Blog: American Whiskey & Other Stuff, February 19, 2008. (Access date December 13, 2010.)
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