A 42-inch diameter column still at Diageo’s Bullit Distillery.The previous post was long and covered a lot. Here I want to give more attention to the “Size Matters” story in the new issue of The Bourbon Country Reader, my old-school, paper-i…
An anti-hoarding, pro-rationing poster for the United States during World War II.The rationing poster above refers to an article in the new issue of The Bourbon Country Reader, which subscribers will receive shortly, but I wanted to start with a …
I haven’t posted much recently. If you miss it, now is the time to tell me.
The “updated” Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame® award.I was inducted into the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame (KBHOF) in 2009. It’s a nice honor. It came with a replica copper still, with my name on it, and a personalised lapel pin. That’s pretty…
Heaven Hill installs the column still at its new distillery in Bardstown.Heaven Hill today, with much fanfare, installed the column still that will be the centerpiece of their new Bardstown distillery. It’s a big one, five-and-a-half feet in diam…
Ad for Mary Dowling’s Made-in-Mexico BourbonEarlier this summer, Kaveh Zamanian and Pernod-Ricard announced the formation of the Mary Dowling Whiskey Company, a new brand. The whiskey is from Rabbit Hole, but they’re not talking about that s…
An architect’s rendering of Blue Run’s proposed $51 million distillery in Georgetown, Kentucky.Beermaker Molson Coors announced today it is purchasing Blue Run Spirits. Terms were not disclosed. The deal was reported in the Lexington Herald-Leade…
The water tower is a remnant of the distillery that must not be named.Heaven Hill Brands and Log Still Distilling LLC put out a press release yesterday under the headline, “Heaven Hill Brands and Log Still Distilling LLC Settle Trademark Dispute …
The voodoo of Ancestry DNA says some of my people migrated from Maryland to North Central Kentucky in the 18th-19th centuries.I have been around the Kentucky bourbon business for about 45 years. I got into it by moving from Ohio to Kentucky for a…
MGPI, Atchison, Kansas.If you noticed in the news that MGPI will close its grain neutral spirits distillery in Atchison, Kansas, you may have thought, “Ho hum, one less industrial alcohol distillery. So what?”The straightforward press release fro…
