ON THE SUPERIOR SHELF
On the Superior Shelf: Blue Ash Farm Bourbon
A closer look at Blue Ash Farm Straight Bourbon: original bottle photography, a four-year age statement and the brand and producer behind the label.
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The displayed images use AI-assisted retouching. Small printed details may be reconstructed. For exact label text, see the original front and original back.
A tree on the front, a truck on the back
A broad, rectangular bottle gives Blue Ash Farm plenty of room to tell its story. On the front, a spreading tree and a small cabin sit against a deep blue label. Amber whiskey shows through the shoulders and the thick glass at the base; a black ribbon falls from the neck.
Turn it around and the scene changes to a vintage truck. These are details worth slowing down for. On the Superior Shelf begins with real bottles and what their labels reveal, before any tasting verdict enters the conversation.
What this bottle tells us
The photographed expression is Blue Ash Farm Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Its front label states barrel aged four years, 90 proof, 45% alcohol by volume and 750 ml. Those details describe this particular bottle, checked against the original photograph. The age statement should not be assumed to apply to every Blue Ash Farm release.
Premiere Distillery’s product listing also identifies the Blue Ash Farm Bourbon at 90 proof, 45% alcohol by volume and 750 ml. It lists maple and honey offerings separately, so check the expression name when looking beyond the familiar blue label.
Who is behind Blue Ash Farm?
The back label names Premiere Distillery, Gurnee, Illinois as producer and bottler for Blue Ash Farm, LLC. That answers who is named on this bottle. It does not, by itself, establish where the whiskey was originally distilled, and we do not infer that from the address.
The brand has a different geographical thread. Blue Ash Farm’s own story connects a family farm near Cynthiana, Kentucky with a later farm near Argyle in Wisconsin’s Pecatonica River Valley. The inherited farm sign and the vintage truck help explain the imagery on the packaging. The family-farm history reaches back to 1939; that date is not the bourbon’s age.
For the brand, visit Blue Ash Farm’s bourbon page. For the company named as producer and bottler, visit Premiere Distillery. Keeping those roles clear is more useful than treating every place mentioned on a bottle as its distillation site.
Keep exploring the shelf
There is no new tasting score attached to this feature. To compare packaging, turn to our Basil Hayden photo essay. To decide what belongs in your next glass, try our guide to choosing bourbon and the review library.
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Sources checked on 24 September 2026. This is a bottle photo essay, not a scored review or a new tasting. Photographs are published anonymously with permission and AI-retouched for presentation. Label facts were checked against the unretouched originals; brand history is attributed to official sources.