wild turkey

September is National Bourbon Heritage Month by declaration of the U.S. Senate, and Kentucky's Bourbon Festival was held this past weekend in Bardstown, Ky. Even if you missed the festival, it's not too late to celebrate with America's Native Spirit. Wild Turkey has been slaking the thirst of bourbon lovers everywhere since 1940, when distiller Thomas McCarthy brought along a batch of the good stuff on a turkey hunt -- it doesn't get more American than shooting things and drinking whiskey, amirite? -- and his friends asked for second helpings of that "Wild Turkey Bourbon" the next year. Many of us are familiar ...