In some respects, the story is everything. And what better story to tell than you were one of Kentucky’s earliest distilleries?
Old Pogue Distillery can tell that tale today, thanks to Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau, which restored the distillery’s original Distilled Spirits Plant number, DSP-KY-3.
That’s the number the distillery had when it opened in the 1800s. Only Heaven Hill and Bernheim had lower numbers.
Then came Prohibition. When Peter Pogue got around to reopening the plant, in 2012, nearly 80 years after Repeal of Prohibition, it was assigned DSP-KY-1502.
The current production goal is 50 barrels a year.
Pogue wanted the old DSP number because of the historical significance.