The James Crow Chronicles: Part 9 (Old Crow Brand)
The James Crow Chronicles: Part 9 (Old Crow Brand)
Editor’s Note: This is the final
The saga of the Old Crow whiskey brand
The origins of the Crow brand started in the 1840s when James Crow marked his one-eight share of barrels by chalking C-R-O-W on each of his barrel heads. He then scratched over the chalk with an iron hook, C-R-O-W, etching ownership of his whiskey barrels, that represented his future income. In the Pepper warehouse, the whiskey was either known as Pepper’s whiskey or Crow’s whiskey; they were one and the same. Whiskey put away for more than three years gained the lingua franca, ‘old’ whiskey.