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The name derives from Bourbon County, Kentucky, which was itself named after the French royal family at the time of the American Revolutionary War. A concurrent resolution of the United States Congress in 1964 restricted bourbon to U.S. production. Some stories about its origins there are not true, such as its purported inventionIn music, an invention is a short composition with two or three part counterpoint. See Invention (music An invention is a novel device or technique. One question that society often asks is, "What conditions lead to the development of an invention?" There by BaptistThe Baptist church is a movement within the Protestant branch of Christianity that emphasizes a believer's baptism by full immersion, which is performed after a profession of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. A congregational governance system giv minister and distiller Elijah CraigElijah Craig ( 1738 (?) May 18, 1808) was a Baptist minister from Kentucky, who is remembered chiefly for being an important figure in the invention of bourbon whiskey. Craig was born in Orange County, Virginia in approximately 1738. He was ordained a Bap.

A refinement introduced by ScottishScotland or in Scottish Gaelic, Alba is a country and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four nations comprising the United Kingdom. Scotland occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Scotland took part in a p chemistA chemist is a scientist who specializes in chemistry. The word derives from the older term alchemist. Also, in British English, the term is used for a pharmacist or a pharmacist's shop. See also: List of chemists, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Biography. Dr. James C. Crow was the sour mash process, by which each new fermentationIn its strictest sense fermentation is the energy-yielding anaerobic metabolic breakdown of a nutrient molecule, such as glucose, without net oxidation. Fermentation yields lactate, acetic acid, ethanol, or some other simple product. Fermentation is also is conditioned with some amount of spent beer (previously fermented mash that has been separated from its alcoholIn general usage, alcohol (from Arabic al-khwl , or al-ghawl ) refers almost always to ethanol, also known as grain alcohol and often to any beverage that contains ethanol (see alcoholic beverage . This sense underlies the term alcoholism ( addiction to a), in much the same way that sourdoughSourdough is a symbiotic culture of lactobacilli and yeasts used to leaven bread. Sourdough bread has a very distinctive taste, due mainly to the lactic acid produced by the lactobacilli. Sourdough bread is made by using a small amount of so-called starte bread is made from starter. The acid introduced by using the sour mash controls the growth of bacteria that could taint the whiskey. As of 2004, all straight bourbons use a sour mash process. Crow developed this refinement while working at the Old Oscar Pepper Distillery (now the Woodford Reserve Distillery ) in Woodford County, Kentucky.

Curiously, when thinking about bourbon, many people first think of the brand Jack Daniel's, which is of the similar Tennessee style, and not technically a bourbon. Almost all bourbons are distilled in Kentucky, and it is often said that only Kentucky whiskey can properly be called bourbon; this is, however, not true, as those few exceptions to the rule demonstrate.

See also: Corn whiskey, Moonshine.