Casey Jones Eclipse and Casey Jones tobacco!

• Interesting things about the distillery: 
  • Features a square still
  • Casey was a famous still maker in the land between the lakes area
  • He started making square stills, which made them easier to transport and move in a hurry, something that is helpful if you're being chased down.
  • He went to prison for bootlegging and stopped moonshining and building a still in 1967
  • This distillery was started by his grandson, Arlon Casey Jones (AJ)
• B3 Beverages
  • B3 is a newer beverage company, and Casey Jones is their first distillery.  They partner with 
    • Bald Birds Brewing Co. (King of Prussia & Jersey Shore, PA) & Four Birds Distilling (PA) 
    • Heavy Seas Beer (Baltimore, MD) 
    • Yards Brewing Company (Philadelphia, PA)
    • Two Roads Brewing Company (Stratford, CT) 
  • They allow companies to continue operating, and just add financial backing
  • They do talk about co-manufacturing, so I can see them attempting to either start their own brand and use Casey Jones distillery to make it, or partner with other distilleries and share capacity.
    • Casey Jones also has a 3000 barrel rickhouse
• Our Bottle: 
• Pipe Pairings:
  • Casey Jones pipe tobacco
  • Named after the railroad engineer Casey Jones.  He was killed in a railroad accident, and there are a couple of songs about him, one by the Grateful Dead and another made famous by Johnny Cash.
  • The story is that Casey is an accomplished engineer.  He was driving a passenger train (engine 382) that was running behind.  Time was mostly made up. A freight train had pulled onto a siding, but the air brakes broke and locked it up with the caboose and a couple of cars still on the main line.  Sims was the fireman.  Casey told him to bail, and he did.  If Casey had bailed, it would have hit that train going 75 miles an hour.  Since he stayed, he slowed it to 35, and the passengers all lived.  The only fatality was him.  This was in 1900.
  • Engine 382 was rebuilt, but it crashed 4 more times, the final time running into a passenger train and killing 4 people, including the former president and VP of the railroad it was on.)
  • Ironically, this Casey Jones did not drink