The sole survivor of a distiller from 1885, this bottle named for J.T.S. Brown is currently produced by Heaven Hill and is part of its large stable of bottled-in-bond products, targeted at the low end of the price spectrum. John Thompson Street Brown, Jr and George Garvin Brown, his half brother, continued the family liquor business started by J.T.S Brown Sr. - expanding it into into company that would eventually become legendary whiskey giant Brown-Foreman. Their flagship brand was the now defunct Old Prentice label though they also distributed whiskey under the J.T.S. Brown, Old Lebanon Club, and Vine Spring Malt labels. The brothers were some of the first to pioneer sealed glass bottles, and George was known for being one of the early champions of quality bourbon. Eventually the old McBrayer Distillery that they used would change ownership a few times until Austin Nichols & Company purchased the facility (to this day the home of Wild Turkey). The bot...
Named for old timey distiller Joseph Washington Dant and first introduced in 1836, this bottle has been produced by Heaven Hill since 1993. Allegedly, Dant didn't have the money for a copper still and instead used one made out of a wooden log instead. While both possible and fairly common at the time, this would have been highly inefficient owing to wood's porosity and poor thermal conductivity. I would hazard that only the main "barrel" of the still would have been wood with the boiler and condenser still being metal. Dant made whiskey using grains grown by himself and barrels made in his own cooperage. In 1872, Taylor and Williams began distributing Dant Distillery whiskey under the Yellowstone label, a brand which eventually passed to Heaven Hill and then was sold to Luxco. Interestingly, some Dant decedents tried to revive the Dant story by establishing Log Still distillery though their marketing pushes provoked a successful lawsuit from Heaven Hill which held t...