Elmer T. Lee for sale

Child, we’re not employing any hands today” were the words that welcomed Elmer T. Lee when he previously appeared at meet at the Distillery in 1949. They turned out to be articulated by Col. Albert B. Blanton, the notorious President of the Distillery at that point. Had it not been for Orville Schupp’s demand that he come in to work the next week at any rate, Elmer probably won’t have proceeded to be named the Distillery’s first Master Distiller.

Elmer joined the Distillery as an upkeep engineer in 1949 in the wake of filling in as a Radar Bombardier in World War II and getting back to procure a science certificate at the University of Kentucky. Rapidly ascending to Plant Engineer, at that point Plant Superintendent and in the long run the double title of Plant Manager and Master Distiller, Elmer supervised a significant part of the Distillery’s modernization and development up until his retirement in 1985.

In 1984, Elmer respected the one who was at first so doubtful of him by presenting the world’s first single-barrel whiskey, Blanton’s Single Barrel. Not long from that point, Elmer himself was respected with his own single-barrel namesake.

Elmer kept on filling in as Master Distiller Emeritus for Buffalo Trace. His work and inheritance have been respected by his acceptance into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2001, his receipt of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from both Whisky Advocate in 2002 and Whisky Magazine in 2012, and his enlistment into Whisky Magazine’s Hall of Fame. Elmer died in 2013 only a couple weeks short of what might have been his 94th birthday celebration, yet his commitments to the whiskey business live on through the large numbers of fans overall who make the most of his manifestations.