93 Proof. Built for Blending.

Made for the trade since 1893

Peoria, Illinois — 1893

Corning & Company works

1893 Sanborn fire-insurance plat of the Corning & Company works, Peoria, Illinois
On the plat

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In 1893, that meant improving someone else’s whiskey.

POND FORK Bourbon was never bottled to be sipped alone. It was a trade-only blending bourbon — sold to wholesale houses and blenders who added it to their own barrels to round out character, deepen the body, and raise the quality of what they were already selling. POND FORK Bourbon’s job was to make other bourbons better.

Today, the bar is different
The barrel is a mixing glass

The same 50/50 architecture — pot-distilled texture, column-distilled clarity — that once improved another distiller’s whiskey now does the same work in a cocktail. Built to blend. Built to elevate whatever it’s poured into.

Made for the trade. Made for the mix. Same bourbon, same job — just a different glass.