Booker Noe is dead
Lew Bryson
you'd like to know. Booker Noe, the distiller emeritus of Jim Beam and Jim
Beam's grandson, died in his sleep last night. Booker was rightly a legend
in the business, a real distiller who became a spokesman for both Jim Beam
bourbon and the whole industry. His signature bourbon, Booker's, was a
first -- uncut, unfiltered, just the way Booker liked to drink it. I enjoyed
Booker's company, I continue to enjoy his whiskey. So I celebrate his life,
but I do mourn his death.
Malt Advocate is honored to publish his eulogy next issue, provided to us by
Jim Kokoris of Jim Beam, who wrote the eulogy and will be delivering it at
Booker's funeral.
Go with God, Booker; I'm sure he's got whiskey waiting for you.
--
Lew Bryson
www.LewBryson.com
Author of "New York Breweries" and "Pennsylvania Breweries," 2nd ed., both
available at <www.amazon.com>
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Steve Jackson
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> Yes, it's not beer, but I know some of you are bourbon lovers, and I
thought
> you'd like to know. Booker Noe, the distiller emeritus of Jim Beam and Jim
> Beam's grandson, died in his sleep last night.
Sad news. My impression was that he was a big driver behind the whole
"small-batch" movement and the increasing respectibility of bourbon as
quality beverage. It's always tough on an industry when one of its
best-known spokesmen goes.
-Steve
Andrew Layton
items, both. Even more is
Lew Bryson's mini-eulogy - a gentlemanly piece.
Just goes to show that bourbon drinkers are a serene, gentlemanly lot,
almost as much as beer lovers.
( Latter a little joke ! )
Andy
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<kingof...@hotmail.net> wrote:
>Yes, it's not beer, but I know some of you are bourbon lovers, and I thought
>you'd like to know. Booker Noe, the distiller emeritus of Jim Beam and Jim
>Beam's grandson, died in his sleep last night. Booker was rightly a legend
>in the business, a real distiller who became a spokesman for both Jim Beam
>bourbon and the whole industry. His signature bourbon, Booker's, was a
>first -- uncut, unfiltered, just the way Booker liked to drink it. I enjoyed
>Booker's company, I continue to enjoy his whiskey. So I celebrate his life,
>but I do mourn his death.
>
>Malt Advocate is honored to publish his eulogy next issue, provided to us by
>Jim Kokoris of Jim Beam, who wrote the eulogy and will be delivering it at
>Booker's funeral.
>
>Go with God, Booker; I'm sure he's got whiskey waiting for you.
I've always wondered: if he is Jim Beam's grandson, why isn't his name
Booker Beam?
vincent p. norris
>Booker Beam?
Because when daughters marry, their children have a different surname.
vince norris
Lew Bryson
> >I've always wondered: if he is Jim Beam's grandson, why isn't his name
> >Booker Beam?
>
> Because when daughters marry, their children have a different surname.
Right: Booker was the son of one of Jim's daughters, Margaret, who married
Frederick Booker Noe. Booker was their son, and his son, Freddie Noe, is
named for his grandfather.
There are other Beams working in the business. Parker Beam and his son Craig
are the master distillers at Heaven Hill (every drop of Heaven Hill has been
distilled by a Beam, something Jim Beam can't say anymore); the distiller at
Michter's was a Beam. Toddy Beam owns a liquor store in Bardstown (great for
finding odd bottlings you may not find elsewhere).