Things have changed over the last two centuries. It is easier to document the history of the distilling industry in the twenty-first century than it was in the twentieth century. It is not that the records were not kept from… Continue Reading →
Leiper’s Fork Distillery near Franklin, Tennessee, is a distillery to watch. Their distiller, Lee Kennedy, is making very good whiskey. It is a small distillery by modern standards but they are distributing their whiskey outside Tennessee. Rosemary ord…
Old Forester has a series they call the “Whiskey Row” series. The name comes from the fact that Old Forester had an office on Main Street in Louisville in the heart of Louisville’s Whiskey Row. Whiskey Row gets its name… Continue Reading →
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail has been a huge success. It has increased the interest in Kentucky Bourbon and brought a lot of tourism dollars to the local economies. It has been successful enough that many of Kentucky’s dry counties have… Continue Readi…
I am not a bartender and I have never aspired to be one. I will mix an occasional cocktail for myself and Rosemary, but I will never be a top-notch bartender. However, I do like cocktail books for many reasons…. Continue Reading →
Bottled-in-Bond whiskey is a growing category. It has regained some of the respect it had in the first half of the twentieth century. The established distilleries are beginning to give their bonded whiskeys more support and in the case of… Continue R…
I was recently invited, along with several other whiskey writers, to visit Jane Bowie in her lab at Maker’s Mark and see the process that she and her team go through to in order to bottle their special wood finish… Continue Reading →
This advertising picture is from 1947. It is an Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond advertisement printed on a panel and made to be either hung on the wall or to stand on top of cases of Old Fitzgerald on display in a… Continue Reading →
About five years ago, I was part of an event at the Leiper’s Fork Distillery, near Franklin, Tennessee. The distiller (I don’t think he was calling himself a “Master Distiller” at the time), Lee Kennedy, was hosting the event at… Continue Reading …
There has been a growth in the number of whiskeys that are being Bottled-in-Bond in the last few years. Most of these whiskeys have come from the smaller artisan distilleries. The category almost died out after the Reagan administration deregulated… …
