I think the discussion on BourbonEnthusiast com may be confused between the brand ownership and the bottling company I think the situation is similar with Black Maple Hill See There s a family named Pogue and the Old Pogue web site does not mention KBD at all My belief is that KBD bottles under contract from Pogue At it says bottled by KBD which says nothing about who owns the brand Also I wouldn t necessarily rely excessively on such a source too much In the case of Black Maple Hill the brand owner seems to be a California company named CVI and I found a CVI company web page that doesn t mention KBD although some sites call that a KBD brand presumably because KBD is the contract bottler I think a similar status may apply to Corner Creek as well I found several pointers on the Internet to the site but it seems to be a non functioning site KBD seems like a rather confusing company to try to understand even the brands that they list on their site as being their brands don t actually say KBD on their labels anywhere The do not list Old Pogue Black Maple Hill or Corner Creek on their site although my understanding is that they are the bottler for all of those IMHO regardless of whether they own the brands or not they make some mighty fine bourbon