J.B. Kirk Bourbon

J.B. Kirk is a whiskey brand that was created in Woodbury, Tennessee during the 1800s. J.B. owned a 231 acre farm just outside town where he grew his crops, processed the grain at his gristmill, utilized the spring on his property that never ran dry, and aged the whiskey in his warehouse. When the whiskey was mature it was sold throughout Tennessee and at his saloon on the east side of the public square in Woodbury until prohibition. More than a century later the brand would be revived by J.B. Kirk’s great-great-grandsons. Today the brand is still 100% family owned and remains in Tennessee. The two descendants that revived the brand are cousins that grew up in Franklin and Hendersonville, Tennessee, and still live near Nashville. One of the cousins heads up the day to day operations of J.B. Kirk while the other maintains his day job as a partner at a law firm.