
Products Jim Beam White Label, Beam's high-volume label A 375 mL can of Jim Beam Black mixed with Cola. Jim Beam Old Grand Dad Plant in Frankfort, KY.Jim Beam Booker Noe Plant in Boston, KY.The KEEC along with local and federal agencies used aeration to increase the oxygen levels in the water to prevent additional fish kill. The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet (KEEC) released a statement via their official Facebook page stating the alcohol plume had reached 23 miles (37 km) between Owenton and Carrollton. The estimated cost of the fire to Beam Suntory was around $45 million. Learning from the 2003 fire it was decided not to use water, letting it burn itself out to reduce runoff into the ecosystem. The fire led to the spillage of bourbon into the Kentucky River and Glenns Creek. On July 3, 2019, another warehouse caught ablaze which destroyed around 45,000 barrels (2,385,000 US gallons or 9,030,000 litres) of bourbon. The combined company is known as Beam Suntory.

would be purchased by Suntory Holdings Ltd., a Japanese group of brewers & distillers known for producing Japan's first whiskey. In January 2014, it was announced that Beam Inc. Other parts of the remaining company were spun off as an IPO on the NYSE on the same day, as Fortune Brands Home & Security, and the liquor division of the holding company was renamed Beam, Inc. Jim Beam was part of the holding company formerly known as Fortune Brands that was dismantled in 2011. An estimated 19,000 fish died of the bourbon in the creek and a river. Burning bourbon spilled from the warehouse into a nearby creek. Flames rose more than 100 feet from the structure. On August 4, 2003, a fire destroyed a Jim Beam aging warehouse in Bardstown, Kentucky. Old Taylor was subsequently sold to the Sazerac Company. In 1987, Jim Beam purchased National Distillers, acquiring brands including Old Crow, Bourbon de Luxe, Old Taylor, Old Grand-Dad, and Sunny Brook. In 1987 Booker introduced his namesake bourbon, Booker's, the company's first uncut, straight-from-the-barrel bourbon, and the first of the company's " Small Batch Bourbon Collection".įred Noe (Frederick Booker Noe III, 1957–) became the seventh generation Beam family distiller in 2007 and regularly travels for promotional purposes. īooker Noe (Frederick Booker Noe II, 1929–2004), grandson of Jim Beam, was the Master Distiller at the Jim Beam Distillery for more than 40 years, working closely with Master Distiller Jerry Dalton. Jeremiah later teamed up with childhood friend Jimberlain Joseph Quinn, to expand the enterprise.
#Beem holdings full#
Jeremiah Beam eventually gained full ownership and opened a second distillery near Boston, Kentucky, in 1954. Jeremiah Beam (1899–1977) started working at the Clear Springs distillery in 1913, later becoming the master distiller and overseeing operations at the new Clermont facility. The Beam company was purchased by American Brands in 1968. In 1945, the company was purchased by Harry Blum, a Chicago spirits merchant. In 1943, the brand name was changed from "Old Tub" to "Jim Beam", after James Beauregard Beam, and some of the bottle labels bear the statement, "None Genuine Without My Signature" with the signature James B.

James Beauregard Beam (1864–1947) managed the family business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933–1934 in Clermont, Kentucky, near his Bardstown home. In 1880, the company started bottling the product and selling it nationally under the brand name "Old Tub". Until 1880, customers would bring their own jugs to the distillery to fill them with whiskey. Beam (1833–1913) in 1854 moved the distillery to Nelson County to capitalize on the growing network of railroad lines connecting states. Jacob Beam's son David Beam (1802–1854) took on his father's responsibilities in 1820 at the age of 18, expanding distribution of the family's bourbon during a time of Industrial Revolution. Jacob Beam sold his first barrels of corn whiskey around 1795, then called Old Jake Beam Sour Mash. Johannes "Jacob" Beam (1760–1834) was a farmer who began producing whiskey in the style that became bourbon. Previously produced by the Beam family and later owned by the Fortune Brands holding company, the brand was purchased by Suntory Holdings in 2014.ĭuring the late 18th century, members of the Böhm family, who eventually changed the spelling of their surname to "Beam", emigrated from Germany and settled in Kentucky.

Beam, who rebuilt the business after Prohibition ended. The brand name became "Jim Beam" in 1943 in honor of James B. Since 1795 (interrupted by Prohibition), seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in whiskey production for the company that produces the brand. It is one of the best-selling brands of bourbon in the world. Jim Beam is an American brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory.
