Casey Jones Distillery

Casey Jones Distillery is the Hopkinsville, Kentucky operation built on one of the most direct moonshining-to-legal-distilling lineage stories in Kentucky. The distillery is named for the founder's grandfather, Casey Jones — not the railroad engineer of folk-song fame, but the Prohibition-era Western Kentucky moonshine master who, from the 1930s through the 1960s, designed and hand-built an estimated 150 portable "coffin" stills (named for their squared, transportable design) and was imprisoned twice for still-building. Casey's still designs were renowned among Western Kentucky moonshiners for superior flavor and efficiency, and the family preserved one of his final stills as a template. In 2014, Casey Jones's grandson Arlon "AJ" Jones and his wife Peg Hays opened Casey Jones Distillery on the Jones family homestead just outside Hopkinsville — 5.5 miles northwest of town in Christian County, on the property where AJ grew up around the moonshining tradition. The still currently in use at the distillery was built using AJ's grandfather's preserved final still as the design template — making Casey Jones one of the few legal Kentucky distilleries running production on stills explicitly modeled after pre-legalization moonshining equipment. The product range honors the family's moonshine heritage while expanding into the legal-aged spirits market that Casey himself never had the chance to participate in. The core lineup runs unaged white whiskey and flavored moonshines (the high-…