Silent Brigade Distillery Piles Into the Kentucky Distillers’ Association

The Kentucky Distillers’ Association, representing the vast majority of bourbon and whiskey distilleries in Kentucky, announced recently it has added its 34th member, the most since the end of Prohibition. Silent Brigade Distillery is the name of the operation, and they are a tiny player at this point, being placed in the trade group’s craft level membership due to aging less than 1,000 barrels a year.

Silent Brigade Distillery was founded in 2014 by Keith Bundy and John Brown, co-workers and friends for more than a decade. Holding jobs as a boilermaker and crane operator, respectively, they turned their passion for whiskey and skillsets into a business of designing and crafting copper stills at first for others. After doing a few of these, they then proceeded to open the distillery, with their own 305-gallon copper pot still.

The distillery, operating out of a visitor friendly facility in the city of Paducah that includes a full-service bar, offers several varieties of flavored moonshine, including apple pie, peach, blackberry, chocolate coconut and piña colada, as well as the LBL recipes of apple sin and original 1950s style moonshine. Plans for a bourbon are underway and will be released when aged.

“Silent Brigade is an exciting addition to Paducah’s downtown scene,” KDA President Eric Gregory said in a prepared statement. “Keith and John have created an inviting space that welcomes the community and visitors to come together and engage in Kentucky’s thriving craft spirits industry. We congratulate Silent Brigade on its success and proudly welcome them to our distilling family.”

“Silent Brigade would like to thank the KDA for all the hard work they have done, not just for the distilling industry but for the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” added Bundy, the distillery’s president. “It is humbling to be accepted into a prestigious organization with so many of the finest distilleries our great Commonwealth has to offer. As we continue to grow, we hope to be an asset and valuable member of the KDA.”