Elijah Craig

Elijah Craig is a premium and super-premium brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Kentucky by Heaven Hill Distilleries. The brand is sold as a straight bourbon.
The bourbon brand is named in honor of Reverend Elijah Craig (1738/1743 – May 18, 1808), who was a Baptist preacher, educator, and entrepreneur in Fayette County, Virginia, which became Scott County, Kentucky, following Kentucky statehood in 1792. In approximately 1789, Craig founded a distillery there. The Heaven Hill company dubiously credits him with the invention of “true Kentucky Bourbon” by improving the locally made distillate from an un-aged corn liquor through barrel-aging in charred oak casks, “a process that gives the bourbon its reddish color and unique taste.”The Heaven Hill company uses this claim, calling Elijah Craig “The Father of Bourbon” in its advertising of their product.[4] Elijah Craig is most widely known by association with this brand of bourbon.