
Ole Smoky Whiskey is available at the Barrelhouse which is located on the Parkway in downtown Gatlinburg, close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We ensure the highest quality of whiskey to be made available to the public. The final product is then hand-picked from the barrels based on taste and color. Ole Smoky uses a century old recipe, white oak barrels to age the product, locally grown grain yeast, water and a few other proprietary ingredients to brew their product. The whiskey flavors are Straight Tennessee Whiskey, Blended Whiskey, Salty Caramel Whiskey and Tennessee Mud. The Barrelhouse location will allow visitors to see how whiskey is made and shop in the collection of retail merchandise. “The whiskey is going to be a great addition to Ole Smoky’s collection of moonshines.” “We are honored that we are able to grow a business everyone in East Tennessee knows and loves”, said Joe Baker, founder of Ole Smoky Moonshine. Ole smoky Whiskey is a re-branding and renovation of the Davy Crockett’s Tennessee Whiskey, a Gatlinburg based company. This is Tennessee’s first legal moonshine company and expanding into whiskey is a natural addition for the company. Ole Smoky Distillery distills and sells Ole Smoky Whiskey from their Barrelhouse location in downtown Gatlinburg, TN. A D is one star and a D- one-half of a star.Read More It doesn’t get better than old Smoky Distillery! A C- is two stars.ĭ+ to D-: Below average whiskey.

A B- is three stars.Ĭ+ to C-: Average whiskey.

The best of the mass market whiskeys fit in this category, as do the bulk of the premium brands. The sourced bourbon is aged at least 4 years and. Five stars.Ī-: A fine bottle of whiskey, representing the top end of the conventional, premium range.ī and B-: Good and above average. In 2016, the brand acquired Davy Crocketts Tennessee Whiskey and introduced a Tennessee Straight Bourbon. Above five stars.Ī: An outstanding bottle of whiskey, but lacking that special something which makes for a true masterpiece. A+: A masterpiece and one of the ten best whiskeys of its type. Some "premium" whiskeys really are quite terrible, while some mass market products are good enough to pour into a decanter and serve to the Duke of Edinburgh. The following indicators should be taken as only a guide and not a set of hard and fast rules. The Whiskey Reviewer uses a letter-based rating system, instead of the numerical 100-grade rating system.

From now on, four Davy Crockett products - Straight Tennessee Whiskey, Blended Whiskey, Salty Caramel Whiskey and Tennessee Mud - will now be known as “Ole Smoky Whisky,” alongside the existing “Ole Smoky Moonshine.”ĭavy Crockett Tennessee Whiskey, now Ole Smoky Tennessee Whisky, is a four year old Tennessee Whiskey (made with the Lincoln County Process), bottled at 90 proof. What has become of Davy Crockett has alternately been described as a merger and as a takeover/acquisition in news reports, but what is clear is that Davy Crockett’s products are to be rebranded as part of the Ole Smoky family. As of 2014, their spirits were in national distribution. Ole Smoky Tennessee Moonshine was the first moonshine distillery to open in Gatlinburg, starting operations in 2010. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the defunct distillery has merged with local legal moonshine giant Ole Smoky.

The New Year was marked in Gatlinburg by the closure of one of the popular mountain resort’s moonshine distilleries, when Davy Crockett’s Tennessee Whisky posted a farewell message on its Facebook account and shuttered its doors.
