Brand (front) or keg collar, 3.62 × 5 in
Filed by BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY
Early Times, Kentucky's Finest
Frankfort, KentuckyFiled 26 Mar 2025
- 80 proof · 40% ABV
- Age not stated
- Whiskey specialty
- Distilled in Kentucky (class statement)
Wood & finish
- Class, as printed
- KENTUCKY WHISKEY WITH NATURAL FLAVORS
- Bottle
- 1000 ml
Read from the front and neck labels by the extractor; each fact is the label's own statement.
Sourcing
- Distilled at
- Not named — the label says only "Kentucky"
- Bottled by
- The Early Times Distilling Company, Louisville, KY
- Distilled in
- Kentucky (from the class statement)
Each line is the label's own statement with its role words removed. Applicant and bottler are not the same thing as distiller.
No distiller name is inferred from a state. When the label names only a state, the ledger says so.
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- Distilled in
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- Distiller
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- Distilled in
- Not stated
- Distiller
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- Filed by
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- Distilled in
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- Distiller
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- Filed by
- BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY
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- Distilled in
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- Distiller
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- Filed by
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- Distilled in
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- Distiller
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- Filed by
- BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY
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- Distilled in
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- Distilled in
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* Proof derived from the printed ABV (ABV × 2); the label prints no proof.
Where this comes from
- TTB ID
- 25085001000531
- Label approved
- 26 Mar 2025
- Submitted
- 26 Mar 2025 (approved 0 days later)
- Name on the approval
- BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY
- Address on the approval
- Frankfort, KY
- Permits on the approval
- DSP-KY-113, DSP-KY-12, DSP-KY-24, DSP-IN-21057, DSP-MD-11, DSP-ME-2, DSP-NH-21006
- Class on the approval
- 641, Whiskey specialty
- How it was read
- By CaskGrail's reader, from the label images; each fact is the label's own statement
- Source
- US TTB label approval (COLA), not a shelf listing or a release announcement
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