Hemingway Whiskey is built on family traditions. Just as Ernest Hemingway lived a life full of timeless tales worth regaling, the same is true for the Call Family. The team who handcrafts our whiskey has distilling in their blood, along with stories and lessons passed down for more than 230 years.

Our story begins eight generations ago, in the years before Kentucky became a state in the newly formed United States of America. In the Louisville area, on a small farm in what is now Bourbon County, Samuel Call built a still and began to make whiskey. Eight generations later, his ancestors are still doing what the Call family does best: making whiskey as Master Distillers and now co-founders of Hemingway Whiskey.

Whiskey Pioneer & Founder Steve Groth and his two sons collaborated with seventh-generation Master Distiller Ron Call and his two sons, Clayton and eighth-generation Master Distiller Jacob – to author a new whiskey masterpiece and continue their legacy with Hemingway Whiskey.

Ron Call and his sons have been in the bourbon industry for over 35 years. Each a renowned distiller in their own right, they’ve come together to bring their eight generations of whiskey history into a series of American whiskeys true to their roots – and telling an ever-evolving story by handcrafting each one.

Together with the Ernest Hemingway family, the Calls and the Groths are on a mission to craft a whiskey built on tradition and story; they have artfully blended their familial histories and generations of knowledge into a collection of whiskeys fit for Hemingway himself and the legendary stories he told.