Author name: Chuck Cowdery

Why Did Suntory Botch Its Jim Beam Announcement?

 Major brands in the portfolio of Suntory Global Spirits.Whiskey is unlike most manufactured products in a way that even close watchers of the business have trouble grasping. Unlike most things we buy, whiskey made today will not be sold next week…

Today in Jack Daniel’s Kremlinology*

 Jack Daniel’s brand family (2025)The photograph above was used today by the Kentucky Herald-Leader to illustrate a story about quarterly results from Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Forman. As a public company, Brown-Forman’s quarterly results…

Getting It Right the First Time

Finished last night after I got home from the Marty Stuart concert in Skokie.I have a running joke with another writer on the whiskey beat. When we contrast our experiences with producers, she inevitably quips, “yes, but you’re Chuck Cowdery.”That I am…

America Should End Its Socialist Liquor System Now

 Karl liked his brewski as much as the next guy.According to etymologists, the word ‘socialism’ has its root in the Latin sociare, which means to combine or to share. To many on the political right, ‘socialism’ is a word they use to scare people, …

"Made and Bottled in Kentucky" Is Now on YouTube

 In 1991, in anticipation of 200 years of Kentucky statehood, which occurred in 1992, the Kentucky legislature appropriated money for the state’s public television network, KET, to award grants to independent producers to create original programs …

The Return of Buffalo Springs (Sort of)

 Stamping Ground is a small town in Kentucky’s Scott County (pop. 780). It is about 25 miles northwest of Lexington and eight miles from Georgetown, the county seat. Settled in 1790, it was named for the bison-trampled earth around a fruitful spri…

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