American Whiskey Magazine

Meet BIG NOSE Kate

I’m hoping this kind of kick starts something and more brand owners and producers are brave and go this route. There are a lot of stories out there to be told and I think stories and whiskey just go hand in hand, so for me it’s about Kate… lifting her up and promoting this story,” Mel Heim, co-founder and head of product, proudly states when explaining her hopes for the future of Big Nose Kate.

Proclaimed as ‘The greatest story never told. Or let’s just say, not told nearly enough. Until now,’ on the whiskey’s website, Big Nose Kate – who was also known as Mary Katherine Cummings, or Katie Elder, or Mária Magdolna Horony – is finally having her moment in the sun.

Big Nose Kate was a figure revered throughout the ‘Old West’ of the United States. She

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