Cream of Kentucky 12.3 Year Old Westward Whiskey Old Forrester is named after US 10068935213338 934 Old Forrester is named after a "cooperative" physician who regularly prescribed it to his patients during Prohibition "for medicinal purposes they hand bottled the juice and put on the ritzy Vermont glass stopper that was hand press on one of the few existing 19th century glass pressing machines It came and went and came again during Prohibition and was the victim of mergers and acquisition until Jim Rutledge got ahold of it — and Bourbon lovers everywhere are happy he did His own distillery in Crestwood is breaking ground this year and we’re rooting for him