The bourbon brand whose name originated from a hunting expedition is Wild Turkey. The name "Wild Turkey" came about in 1940 when Thomas McCarthy, an executive at Austin Nichols & Co., took some bourbon samples on a hunting trip where they were hunting wild turkeys. The bourbon was well received by his friends, who began asking for "that wild turkey bourbon" at subsequent gatherings. The name stuck, and Austin Nichols began bottling Wild Turkey bourbon officially in 1942
. Wild Turkey bourbon traces its origins back to the Ripy family distillery established in 1869 in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. The brand became widely known after the hunting trip incident, which gave it its distinctive name linked directly to the hunting expedition
. Thus, Wild Turkey is the bourbon brand named after a hunting expedition.
