Founder: Jacob Beam
Year Founded: 1795
Distillery Location: Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Visitor Center:
149 Happy Hollow Road
Clermont, Kentucky
Tel: 502 543 9877
Master Distiller / Blender: Fred Noe, Seventh Generation Beam Family Distiller
How you should drink it
- Straight
- On the rocks
- With a bit of water
- With club soda
- With ginger ale
- In cocktails (Basil Hayden’s Bloody Mary, Shamrock Sour, Basil Hayden’s Apple Bubbly, Basil Hayden’s Last Stand, Ginger Rabbit, Malice in Hollywood No. 1, Juicy Basil, Double Eagle, Louisville Cocktail)
Fast Facts
- Beam distilleries make over two thirds of all bourbon produced in Kentucky.
- Each year, about 80,000 people make the pilgrimage to visit the brand’s visitors’ center.
Types of Jim Beam Available
- Jim Beam
- Jim Beam Black
- Jim Beam Rye
- Jim Beam Choice
- Jim Beam 7 Year
- Small Batch Bourbon Collection: Knob Creek, Baker’s, Booker’s, Basil Hayden’s
- Red Stag
I have a bottle of bourbon brewded in 1917 & bottled in 1933 under the American Medical Society. The seal has never been broken and the contants are about at 97% full. I am interested in selling this
How much are you asking for them?
Knob Creek straight or on the rocks is the perfect cure for sitting in an airport lounge.
I’ve bought this more than once, is a good bourbon. But you got to be in the mood for whisky though.
Let me see…in the mood for whiskey. That only happens on days that end in “Y”.