Everything about Elijah Craig totally explained
Elijah Craig (
1738 –
May 18,
1808) was a
Baptist preacher from
Kentucky, who is remembered chiefly for being credited with the
invention of
bourbon whiskey.
Craig was born in
Orange County, Virginia in approximately
1738. He was ordained a Baptist minister in
1771, and was imprisoned briefly in
South Carolina, apparently for disturbing the peace with his
sermons. He then moved to what was then
Bourbon County, Kentucky and settled in the area of
Frankfort, Kentucky in
1785. In
1777, he became
pastor of Blue Run Church.
Craig was a shrewd
businessman and a local
magnate; he built Kentucky's first
fulling mill, its first
paper mill, and founded a
distillery in approximately
1789 in
Georgetown, Kentucky. It is said that Craig's distillery was the first to age
corn whiskey in new charred
oak barrels, which is the decisive step in turning
moonshine into
Bourbon whiskey.
Craig died in
Georgetown in
1808.
Heaven Hill distilleries now produces a bourbon named after him which is considered to be one of the firm's premium products.
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