Eric LeGrand Launches Kentucky Bourbon W/ Conor McGregor’s Proper 12 Partner

“A lot of times people see someone in a wheelchair with a disability, they think they can’t enjoy alcohol and other things, and I’m like that’s totally not true, and I wanted to end that stigma.”

That’s 32-year-old previous Rutgers football gamer Eric LeGrand, disabled throughout a college football video game in 2010, turned inspirational speaker/kick-ass business person informing TMZ Sports why he chose to introduce his extremely own Kentucky Bourbon, LeGrand Whiskey.

Celebrities have actually been slapping their names on alcohol for many years, however that’s not the case with Eric — he was extremely associated with the procedure, all the method through.

LeGrand talked to company partner Brian Axelrod (“Brian worked extremely carefully with Conor McGregor and his group on [Proper No. Twelve]”), discovered a distillery in Kentucky, and they made Bourbon!

“I’m thinking this is about to taste like rubbing alcohol, it’s gonna be terrible. I took a sip and I’m like hold up, let me get a little bit more. I took another sample and I’m like whoa,” Eric stated, explaining his very first time tasting the item.

“I’m like, we got something special here. This is perfect.”

And, if drinking excellent bourbon wasn’t sufficient factor, Eric’s likewise raising cash for charity.

“We have a purpose behind this. We want to raise money for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation to help us find a cure for paralysis. Every case that we sell, $5.20 will go back to the foundation, because 52 was my number.”

Eric LeGrand Whiskey formally released today … and to celebrate his most current undertaking, EL’s commemorating at Batch Bin & Barrel in New Brunswick, NJ on Thursday — simply miles from where he played football!