Benjamin Prichard's Tennessee Whiskey

Prichard's Distillery
IndustryManufacturing and distillation of liquors
FoundedKelso, Tennessee
(1997; 27 years ago (1997))
FounderPhil Prichard
Headquarters
Kelso, Tennessee
,
U.S.
ProductsDistilled and blended liquors
Websiteprichardsdistillery.com

Benjamin Prichard's Tennessee Whiskey is a brand of Tennessee whiskey produced in the small community of Kelso, Tennessee in the United States. Although it is produced by one of only two distilleries operating in Lincoln County – and its unaged variation is named Lincoln County Lightning – Prichard's is not produced using the Lincoln County Process.[1] Due to a special grandfathering exemption under a Tennessee law enacted in 2013, the Prichard's distillery in Kelso is the only producer allowed to label its product as "Tennessee Whiskey" without using this process.[2][3] Prichard's whiskey is produced entirely using pot stills rather than column stills.[4]

The Prichard's Distillery company opened the Kelso distillery in 1997 and opened a second location in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2014.

  1. ^ Stambor, Zak (February 16, 2015). "A whiskey fight in Tennessee". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
  2. ^ Zandona, Eric (September 16, 2013). "Tennessee Whiskey Gets a Legal Definition". EZdrinking. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  3. ^ "Public Chapter No. 341" (PDF). State of Tennessee. Retrieved March 19, 2014.
  4. ^ Dietsch, Michael (April 2012). "The Serious Eats Guide to Tennessee Whiskey". Serious Eats. Retrieved June 2, 2018.