History
The story of our whiskey goes back 200 years when our family first came to Tennessee. Willliam Collier and James Mckeel came in the 1790's, after the Whiskey Rebellion. President Washington sent troops to Pennsylvania to put down an uprising of whiskey makers who refused to pay a new federal tax. Distillers in every state were afraid the same the same thing would happen to them, and they moved west. Collier and McKeel came to Tennessee from Virginia and North Carolina and along with many others , brought the tradition of making handcrafted sour mash whiskey they learned from their Scottish and Irish ancestors.
They settled along the creeks of Middle Tennessee. The land was rich for planting crops and the water was filtered through ancient limestone and perfect for making whiskey. And after all, whiskey was important and about their only currency. It was far easier to get a few barrels of whiskey to town than many wagons of corn.
In honor of Collier and McKeel, and all those that brought distilling to Tennessee, we have named our whiskey for them. Using a traditional sour mash recipe, water from the Middle Tennessee limestone aquife and our hand-hammered copper pot still we are resurrecting the craft of making small batch Tennessee Whiskey. We mellow our whiskey through sugar maple charcoal, a process unique to Tennessee Whiskey, to give it the smooth character that the state's whiskey is known for and we age it in unique small barrels to create a rich flavor that we are sure you will enjoy.
