Much of this whiskey was purchased from the Ripys/Gould distillery in Tyrone. įor the next three decades, Austin Nichols remained a non-distiller producer-bottling bourbon purchased on the open market under the Wild Turkey brand. The Ripys were bought out in 1949 by Robert and Alvin Gould.
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 "Wild Turkey" brand is said to have arisen after an Austin Nichols executive, Thomas McCarthy, took some warehouse samples on a wild turkey hunting trip in 1940. Austin Nichols was one of these wholesalers. The Ripys sold the bourbon produced at this distillery to various wholesalers who bottled bourbon under their own brands. After Prohibition, the Ripy family (Thomas had died in 1902) repaired the distillery and began to again produce bourbon. In 1891, Thomas Ripy built the Old Hickory Distillery in Tyrone, Kentucky, near Lawrenceburg, on the former site of the Old Moore Distillery.
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