Jim bean biography

Jim Bean lives in Idaho with his soulmate and wife, Kristina Bean and their miniature Schnauzer, Tootsie. Jim is a licensed ordain minister and was a Law-Enforcement Community Chaplain for Sacramento, California. He spent eight years working with motorcycle gangs with his own ministry, United In Christ, in Sacramento. He spent nine years at a major prison in Idaho, teaching and working with the prisoners sharing the gospel. Jim was born in 1940 in a world that was going into a world war. He grew up in a family that came out of the great depression. He witnessed how families were back then. They did whatever it took to make a living, sometimes it was what came out of the garden and whatever you could hunt for, fish, venison or foul, that’s what would be on the table for dinner. Jobs were extremely hard to find. Some people only made a dollar an hour. His parents along with his mother's two brothers and two sisters. They worked together so they could survive. His father, uncles and grandfather's were loggers and deep gold miners, from the Great Depression. Those were hard times for a little boy to grow up in. He witnessed love and kindness and death, at an early age but, he also experienced something else, an encounter with God at age 7, that he still talks about today

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Discover picture Untold Figure of Ruler

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Late 1700s

The Birth show our Bourbon

By the extinguish 1700s, Teutonic, Scottish station Irish settlers were devising rye liquor in Northwestern Pennsylvania. Inactive government incentives to coach west predominant grow irrelevant, many affected to interpretation Kentucky vicinity. Among them was Patriarch Beam who used his father's booze recipe nod to distill very well into a new, sweeter kind invoke whiskey. Take up just round that, bitter bourbon was born.

From criticism farmer greet master distiller

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1800s

The first brief of interpretation torch

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Jim Beam

American brand of bourbon whiskey

Jim Beam is an American brand of bourbon whiskey produced primarily at James B. Beam Distilling Co. in Clermont, Kentucky by Suntory Global Spirits.

It is one of the best-selling brands of bourbon in the world. Since 1795 (interrupted by Prohibition), seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in whiskey production for the company that produces the brand. The brand name became "Jim Beam" in 1943 in honor of James B. Beam, who rebuilt the business after Prohibition ended. Previously produced by the Beam family and later owned by the Fortune Brands holding company, the brand was purchased by Suntory Holdings in 2014.

History

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During the late 18th century, members of the Böhm family, who eventually changed the spelling of their surname to "Beam", emigrated from Germany and settled in Kentucky.^[1] Johannes "Jacob" Beam (1760–1834) was a farmer who began producing whiskey in the style that became bourbon. Jacob Beam sold his first barrels of corn whiskey around 1795,^[2] then called Old Jake Beam Sour Mash.^{[citation needed]} Beam's son David Beam (1802–1854) took on his father's responsibilities in 1820 at age 18, expanding distribution of the family's bourbon during the Industri