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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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• Woodford Reserve

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