Old Pogue is a family-owned bourbon and rye distillery in downtown Maysville, Kentucky, with a story that runs from 1876 through Prohibition and a long gap to a family revival. History Wikipedia says the Pogue family created the Old Pogue bourbon in 1876 and that the original distillery was Kentucky registered distillery number 3, in Maysville. A DePauw University story says Henry Edgar Pogue bought the Maysville distillery where he worked in 1876 and re-established it as Old