Limestone Branch Distillery

Limestone Branch Distillery is the Lebanon, Kentucky operation that put two seventh-generation Beam family descendants — Steve and Paul Beam — back into Kentucky distilling and gave the long-dormant Yellowstone bourbon brand its modern revival. Steve and Paul are direct descendants of both the Beam family (Jacob Beam's line, with all the obvious bourbon-industry lineage that implies) and the Dant family (J.W. Dant Distillery, Yellowstone Distillery, T.W. Samuels Distillery). The Beam brothers founded Limestone Branch in 2010, opening Lebanon's first new distillery since Prohibition and resurrecting Yellowstone — a heritage brand originally launched in 1872 to commemorate Yellowstone National Park's establishment. The Yellowstone line is the brand's commercial anchor: Yellowstone Select (small-batch bourbon, blend of 4-year and 7-year stock), Yellowstone Limited Edition (an annual release with rotating finishes — sherry, French oak, marsala), and the rare American Single Malt Yellowstone releases. The Minor Case Rye line — named after Steve and Paul's great-grandfather Minor Case Beam — is the rye expression, finished in sherry casks and bottled at 90 proof. Limestone Branch also produces an extensive moonshine range (Limestone Branch Moonshine, several flavored variants) that predates the bourbon focus and supports cash flow through the long aging timelines that bourbon requires. The distillery was acquired by Luxco in 2017, then folded into MGP Ingredients when Luxco merge…