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… …
One of my favorite distillery tours is at Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. at 120 N. 10th Street, in Louisville. Peerless has a rich heritage in the distilling business that was lost for almost a century. Peerless Distillery was originally in… Contin…
In 1888, J.W. McCulloch, a former agent for the Internal Revenue Service, registered the Green River trademark and opened a distillery in Owensboro, Kentucky. He believed in marketing and created the slogan “The Whiskey Without A Headache,” and a marke…
In the past couple of years, the way American whiskey is being sold has seen some changes. There are more people getting into the business and as they do, they look for ways to make their business unique and appealing… Continue Reading →
Bryan Smith is the Master Distiller and partner in the Hard Truth Distillery in Nashville, Brown County, Indiana and connected with me on Linkedin. He had read one of my blogs on rye whiskey and wanted to know if I… Continue Reading →
Matt and I visited Castle & Key Distillery back in December. We were picking up a bottle and visited with Brett Conners in the tasting room. Matt had not been to the distillery and wanted to see this legendary facility…. Continue Reading →
When people think about the distilling industry in Kentucky, they think of places like Louisville, Lexington, Bardstown, Lawrenceburg, Frankfort and Owensboro. This is because these are places where the distilling industry prospered after the repeal of…
