Ghostriders Whiskey

Ghostriders: A Whiskey for the Gunship Tradition

Ghostriders is a tribute whiskey dedicated to the memory of the determined, courageous, and unsung professionals who operated, maintained, and supported the AC-130 Gunship mission for more than five decades. From the earliest gunships of the Vietnam era to today’s AC-130J Ghostrider flown by Air Force Special Operations Command, the gunship community built its legacy by being overhead when ground forces needed them most — on station, on call, and on target. This bottle honors every crew member, maintainer, and support troop who kept those aircraft flying, generation after generation.

The back label reads like a roll call, listing the gunship models that carried the mission across the decades, and it closes with an invitation any veteran will recognize: “Smoke ’em if you got ’em.” Handcrafted in Florida, this high blend embodies the Gunship Tradition — a whiskey built for slow pours, long stories, and remembering the people behind the airframes.

Handcrafted in Gunship Country

Fittingly, Ghostriders is made in the same corner of Northwest Florida that the special operations air community calls home. It is crafted at Timber Creek Distillery in Crestview, Florida, a grain-to-glass farm distillery on the Panhandle where fermenting, distilling, aging, and bottling all happen on site. Timber Creek has produced numerous tribute spirits for the region’s military units and associations, and Ghostriders carries that same standard of care. This is more than a themed label — it is a small-batch Florida whiskey made a short drive from the flight lines where the gunship mission lives on. Pour one for the crews who flew into the dark so others could come home, and for the maintainers who made every mission possible. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.