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Jim Beam
Jim Beam traces its distilling roots to 1795, when Johannes "Jacob" Beam began selling his first barrels of corn whiskey, and the Beam family has continued directly overseeing the brand's production across seven consecutive generations, an unusually sustained single-family involvement in American whiskey production. The distillery survived Prohibition by rebuilding its operations essentially from scratch after 1933 repeal, with James B. Beam, the brand's namesake, personally leading the postwar rebuilding effort at age 70, an accomplishment the brand has continued to reference in its own historical marketing. Jim Beam grew into the best-selling bourbon brand in the world by volume, and the company's ownership eventually passed to Japanese beverage conglomerate Suntory in 2014, combining one of America's most historic bourbon brands with one of Japan's largest spirits companies. Jim Beam's combination of its seven-generation continuous Beam family production lineage and its status as the world's best-selling bourbon by volume has made it one of the most commercially significant whiskey brands in history.
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Buffalo Trace
Buffalo Trace Distillery operates on a site with distilling history dating back to the late 18th century, and the distillery survived Prohibition as one of a small number of distilleries granted a license to continue producing whiskey for medicinal purposes during that period. The distillery has been designated a National Historic Landmark, reflecting both its architectural significance and its continuous, uninterrupted operating history spanning more than two centuries under multiple different ownership names before adopting the Buffalo Trace name in 1999. Buffalo Trace built a significant reputation within the bourbon enthusiast community for its highly allocated, limited-release Antique Collection bottlings, including Pappy Van Winkle and George T. Stagg, which have become some of the most sought-after and highest-resale-value bourbons in the entire American whiskey market. Buffalo Trace's combination of its National Historic Landmark distillery status and its highly sought-after limited-release Antique Collection has made it one of the most critically respected bourbon producers in the modern American whiskey industry.
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