Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:39 am
John,
Let's throw some interesting conflicts of information about Pebbleford out on the table. When I worked at United Distillers, the trademark file for Pebbleford never once mentioned a Beam. Schenley was very good at researching their brand names and trademarks but did not once mention the Beam name in relationship to Pebbleford. I also was asked once by Booker Noe what I knew about Pebbleford because he did not have any information about this brand and its "Beam Heritage". I have since looked at everything I find to see if Pebbleford has a relationship with the Beams and the only information I find is recent information put out by Beam. The only old tie I have seen is that at Clermont they have a bottle of Pebbleford bottled toward the end of prohibition. Of course it is bottled in bond and on the back label it names the producer of the whiskey in the bottle and that distiollery is Beam. Now this really does not proove anything because by the end of prohibition brands were kept alive by putting any whiskey they could get into the bottle and in this case it may have simply been Beam whiskey put into a Pebbleford bottle.
I would like to see some pre-prohibition advertising linking Pebbleford with a Beam.
Let's throw some interesting conflicts of information about Pebbleford out on the table. When I worked at United Distillers, the trademark file for Pebbleford never once mentioned a Beam. Schenley was very good at researching their brand names and trademarks but did not once mention the Beam name in relationship to Pebbleford. I also was asked once by Booker Noe what I knew about Pebbleford because he did not have any information about this brand and its "Beam Heritage". I have since looked at everything I find to see if Pebbleford has a relationship with the Beams and the only information I find is recent information put out by Beam. The only old tie I have seen is that at Clermont they have a bottle of Pebbleford bottled toward the end of prohibition. Of course it is bottled in bond and on the back label it names the producer of the whiskey in the bottle and that distiollery is Beam. Now this really does not proove anything because by the end of prohibition brands were kept alive by putting any whiskey they could get into the bottle and in this case it may have simply been Beam whiskey put into a Pebbleford bottle.
I would like to see some pre-prohibition advertising linking Pebbleford with a Beam.