To fully understand where the Kentucky Owl brand is going, you must first see where it has been. It was founded in 1879 by pharmacist Charles Mortimer Dedman; his distillery was located on the banks of the Kentucky River and produced ‘The Wise Man’s Bourbon’ until Prohibition put a stop to his work in 1916.
It was at that point that 250,000 gallons of Kentucky Owl whiskey were seized by federal agents and shipped up river to the state capital. However, shortly after, the warehouse mysteriously burned to the ground and took all of the bourbon with it.
It took until 2014 for new life to be breathed into the brand. That new life initially came in the form of Charles’ great-great grandson, Dixon Dedman. Dixon had worked at his family’s Beaumont Inn, located along
