Wild Turkey is a brand of Kentucky

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distilled and bottled by the Wild Turkey Distilling Co, a division of

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. The distillery is located near

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. It offers tours and is part of the

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and the

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History

In 1891, Thomas Ripy built the Old Hickory Distillery in

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, near Lawrenceburg, on the former site of the Old Moore Distillery. After

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, the Ripy family (Thomas had died in 1902) rebuilt the distillery and began to again produce bourbon. The Ripys sold the bourbon produced at this distillery to various wholesalers who bottled bourbon under their own brands. Austin Nichols was one of these wholesalers. The "Wild Turkey" brand is said to have arisen after an Austin Nichols executive, Thomas McCarthy, took some warehouse samples on a

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hunting trip in 1940. The bourbon proved so popular among his friends they continued to ask him for "that wild turkey bourbon." Austin Nichols began to bottle Wild Turkey in 1942. The Ripys were bought out in 1949 by Robert and Alvin Gould. For the next three decades, Austin Nichols remained a non-distiller producer—bottling bourbon purchased on the open market under the Wild Turkey brand. Much of this whiskey was purchased from the Ripys/Gould distillery in Tyrone. In 1971, Austin Nichols purchased the facility, then known as the Boulevard Distillery, and changed the name to the Wild Turkey Distillery. In 1980, the distillery and the Wild Turkey brand were purchased by

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. On May 9, 2000, a fire destroyed a seven-story aging warehouse at the company in Anderson County, Kentucky. It contained more than 17,000 wooden barrels of whiskey. Burning whiskey flowed from the warehouse and setting the woods on fire. Firefighters saved Lawrenceburg's water treatment plant from destruction. However, an estimated 20% of the whiskey flowed into the

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. The river contamination required the temporary shutdown of the water treatment plant. Officials ordered water usage restrictions. Businesses and schools were closed because of the water shortage. The alcohol spill also depleted the oxygen in the river, killing an estimated 228,000 fish along a 66-mile stretch. The EPA and the Coast Guard's

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aerated the river using equipment mounted on barges. The company paid $256,000 to the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife in an effort to restore the fish population in the river. In 2009, the

acquired the distillery and the Wild Turkey brand from Pernod Ricard. In 2011, Wild Turkey began to be distilled at a newly constructed facility near the old distillery. The new distillery sits where the old bottling facility was previously located. Anderson Valley Brewing Company - November 2022 - Sarah Stierch 10

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In 2013, Campari opened a new bottling facility at the Wild Turkey Distillery. For the previous 13 years Wild Turkey had been bottled offsite in Indiana and, later, Arkansas. In addition to the Wild Turkey products, Campari's

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is also bottled there after being shipped from the Illinois distillery.

Production

Wild Turkey uses a mash consisting of a relatively lower percentage of corn than most bourbons and attempts are made to counteract the alkaline environment of the company's limestone-rich water. Additionally, the raw whiskey is distilled to about 55%

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, much lower than the legally allowed maximum to be considered bourbon. Barrels are rotated in open houses to allow more even maturation, being aged until at least one third of the contents to be lost to evaporation before they are considered for bottling.

Products

The Lawrenceburg distillery bottles its bourbon and rye under the brands of "Wild Turkey" and "Russell's Reserve". Wild Turkey *Wild Turkey 81 Proof *Wild Turkey 81 Proof Rye *Wild Turkey 101 Proof *Wild Turkey 101 Proof Rye *Wild Turkey Rare Breed (a barrel proof blend of 6, 8 and 12-year-old stocks) *Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit (a single barrel 101 proof bourbon) *Wild Turkey Longbranch (86 proof bourbon refined with oak and Texas mesquite charcoal) *Wild Turkey Master's Keep 17 Year (100 proof) *Wild Turkey Master's Keep Decades (104 proof) *Wild Turkey Master's Keep Revival (101 proof) Russell's Reserve (named for Jimmy Russell, Wild Turkey's master distiller) *Russell’s Reserve 13 year ((114.2 proof)2022 Batch)) *Russell's Reserve 10 year (90 proof) *Russell's Reserve Rye 6 Year (90 proof) *Russell's Reserve Single Barrel Rye (104 proof) *Russell's Reserve Single Barrel (110 proof) Flavored *American Honey *American Honey Sting

Awards

In 2012, Wild Turkey 101 earned an 'Editor's Choice' award from ''Whisky Magazine''. An aggregator from various "expert" body reviews places the 101 Single Barrel in the 97th percentile of all rated bourbons.

Advertising campaigns

"Give 'em the Bird"

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.Wild Turkey Bourbon Advertisement
,

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(DISCUS) web site In August 2011, the review board of the

(DISCUS), of which Campari USA is a member, ruled that the advertisement violated the council's code of ethical practices and said that "the gesture is indecent and the advertisement fails to meet contemporary standards of good taste". According to DISCUS, the company disagreed with the board's interpretation but agreed to withdraw the advertisement. Since then, the company has continued to use the "Give 'em the Bird" slogan and middle finger gesturing in additional advertising and promotional activities. In November 2012, Jimmy Russell, the Wild Turkey Master Distiller, publicly called for U.S. President

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to "Give us the bird", as a way of offering to provide a home for that year's

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turkey (which is traditionally "pardoned" by the president) – saying the turkey would become the brand's official "spokesbird".

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was hired as

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and celebrity spokesman for Wild Turkey's latest campaign, to bring in more women and international customers.

In popular culture

Wild Turkey is known for having a number of avian-themed nicknames given to its products, such as the Dirty Bird, the Screaming Eagle, and the Kicking Chicken.

Literature

Wild Turkey is known for being a favorite drink of journalist

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, and is mentioned in his 1972 book ''

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, but for you I think it's Wild Turkey."

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'' has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey, as well as being referenced as Wallace's drink of choice in his biography, '' Every Love Story is a Ghost Story''. In

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's science fiction book ''Infected'', main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey. In

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's 2004 book ''City of Tiny Lights'' the private investigator anti-hero and narrator of the tale, Tommy Akhtar, subsists on a diet of mostly Wild Turkey and

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cigarettes, referring to them as "Benny and the Turk". In Adrian Edmondson's 1995 novel ''The Gobbler'', the hard-drinking central protagonist, Julian Mann, has a penchant for Wild Turkey, particularly in combination with pints of lager.

Film

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Television

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'' is frequently shown drinking from a bottle of Wild Turkey 101, while ads for Wild Turkey can be seen on the walls of Josie's Bar in '' Daredevil''.

Music

"Wild Turkey" was the title of a 1982 top-ten country single for singer

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album '' Reinventing the Steel'' shows a shirtless man jumping through fire while holding a bottle of Wild Turkey. The label is pixelated to avoid trademark infringement, following the controversy over the original cover art of the

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album ''

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''. The Nashville duo Birdcloud released a single called “Wild Turkey 101” in 2018.

References

External links

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