Old Crow

The current Old Crow product uses the same mash bill and yeast as Jim Beam, but is aged for a shorter period of time.

In 1875, offering drinks from the last available cask reportedly secured the election of Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn of Kentucky to his first Congressional term.

[2] Although the whiskey had been at one time the top selling bourbon in the United States, it underwent a swift decline in the second half of the twentieth century.

They stand 12–15.5 inches tall, hold a fifth (about 750 ml) of liquor, and the opposing sides were glazed in golden ochre versus a dark green.

[10] World War II "triple ace" Bud Anderson named his P-51 Mustang Old Crow, after the whiskey.

This is mentioned in connection to a story written in the New York Herald where war managers went to President Abraham Lincoln and demanded General Grant's removal since he was "nothing but a common drunkard."

The 1952 film "Springfield Rifle", disgraced Major Kearney (Gary Cooper) orders Old Crow in a saloon Throughout Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt's 1966 Newbery Award–winning novel, Uncle Haskell drinks copious quantities of Old Crow, taking the empty bottles in a golf bag to bury them at a creek.

In recent books in the Spenser series, originated by the late Robert B. Parker and continued by Ace Atkins, the title character regularly refers to drinking Old Crow.

Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major the main character, Bluesman Manfred Banks favorite drink is Old Crow.

Principal McVicker from the TV series Beavis and Butthead is seen drinking a bottle of Old Crow in the episode "No Laughing".

An advertisement for Old Crow Rye Whiskey in the December 31, 1909 edition of The New York Times .
Pre-prohibition Old Crow, distilled 1912, bottled 1918.