Two of the 150-year-old warehouses destroyed in yesterday’s fire. (Photo taken in 1991-92.)Unlike distillery fires in the past, there was no bourbon involved in this one. The warehouses were empty. That made the fire relatively easy to contain. A…
A fire today at Glenns Creek Distilling, formerly Old Crow, destroyed at least three historic buildings.Today’s fire at Glenns Creek Distilling destroyed several historic buildings from the site’s previous life as the home of Old Crow.Old Crow be…
ZAK Cooperage, formerly Seagrams Distillery, DSP-KY-20. In 1899, John and Peter Atherton sold their distilleries in Athertonville to the Whiskey Trust, which operated them until Prohibition. After Prohibition, the property was acquired by me…
Atherton High School, 3000 Dundee Road, Louisville, KY, is not in the whiskey business, but was named for a prominent distiller.Atherton High is a public high school in Louisville, Kentucky. It serves about 1,400 students. It was named after John…
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, mid-1980s.I agree with most of the criticism of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. I fault him especially for blocking President Obama’s 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, in his role as Senate Maj…
As the 21st century bourbon boom has produced many new bourbons, it also has produced many bourbon books. I’ve read a few. My favorites have been personal stories about the author’s journey of bourbon discovery, such as Heather Greene’s Whiskey D…
(From left to right) Rusty Hamer, Penny Parker, Danny Thomas, Angela Cartwright, and Marjorie Lord.Although it ran for eleven seasons (1953-1964) and ranked in the top ten in every season but one, “The Danny Thomas Show” seems less beloved today …
Kash Patel’s personalized bottle of Woodford Reserve.The Atlantic isn’t letting up on Kash Patel. Today, Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter responsible for the magazine’s April 17th exposé, dropped a new story headlined, “Kash Patel’s Personali…
One of six column stills at the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, TN.Blogger gives me a rudimentary idea of how many people look at this blog and what, specifically, they look at.Typically, the two most popular posts are old ones. The most r…
Some of Park & Tilford’s fine perfumes.When David Schulte bought Old Overholt in the middle of Prohibition, he didn’t want the Pennsylvania distillery. That was worthless. He wanted its 35,000 barrels of aging whiskey along with the license t…
