The story
Mexico, Europe, Kentucky, and a bottle. How one family name travelled for more than a century before it reached a glass.
Chapter 1 · Mexico
1915
A young cavalry officer named George S. Patton Jr. rides with General John J. Pershing on the Mexican border.
Nobody outside the Army knows his name yet. The habits that will make it are already there: the drill, the discipline, the refusal to do anything halfway.
Chapter 2 · Europe
1945
General Patton leads the Third Army across Europe. He dies that December and is buried among his soldiers in Luxembourg.
His family keeps the way he led. Three words, passed from father to son: Excellence. Integrity. Audacity.
Chapter 3 · Fort Knox, Kentucky
1970s
His son, Major General George S. Patton IV, attends the Armor School at Fort Knox and later serves as its Deputy Commandant.
When the Patton Museum opens, his young son Ben cuts the ribbon and hands the famous ivory-handled pistols to the commanding general. Kentucky becomes part of the family story.
Chapter 4 · Bardstown, Kentucky
2026
Ben, grandson of the general, creates two mashbills with Lofted Spirits in Bardstown: a 6 year bourbon and a 5 year rye, both 95 proof.
Patton Spirits launches in 2026. $2 from every bottle goes to the Patton Veterans Project, which Ben leads.
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