Born Frederick Booker Noe III in Bardstown, KY, Fred is the son of “Booker” Noe Jr. and grandson of Jim Beam. He currently serves as Jim Beam’s 8th Master Distiller and was inducted into the Bourbon Hall of Fame in 2013.
Born in Kentucky in 1929, Frederick Booker Noe II, served as the Master Distiller for The Jim Beam Distillery for over 40 years. He would coin the phrase “small batch” to describe his uncut, unfiltered bourbon, which was released as Booker’s...
Carl Beam retires from the Jim B. Beam Distillery Company at the age of 64. His nickname, the “Dean of all Distillers” comes from him teaching some of the greatest distillers ever, including his two sons Baker and David Beam, and Booker Noe, Jim Beam’s...
