Founded in 1889 by Henry Kraver, great-grandfather of CEO Corky Taylor, Peerless was once Kentucky’s second-largest bourbon distillery, selling about 200 barrels of rye whiskey and bourbon a day. Kraver closed the facility in 1917 at the U.S. entered World War I.
Taylor’s family began barreling the new bourbon in March 2015 in a new distillery, using “sweet mash instead of sour, non-chilled filtration, barreling product at 107 proof and bottling it as barrel strength whiskey.”