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Inside Job: Virginia ABC Worker Busted for Selling Bourbon Intel

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Virginia ABC Bourbon Scheme

You always want to have someone in the know, someone on the inside…until you don’t. Virginia is a controlled state meaning the state government runs their liquor stores and subsequently, all spirit sales. There are 17 controlled states in America. To cut down on the Bourbon mayhem we are all familiar with involving the sales […]

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Big News at Green River Distillery: Master Distiller Jacob Call Announces His Departure

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Green River Distillery Master Distiller Jacob Call

(Owensboro, KY) To say it’s been a big and busy year at Green River Distillery is putting it lightly. They launched their first Bourbon under the Green River Label earlier this year (READ MORE). In late June, they were acquired by the Chicago based venture capitalist group Pritzer Private Capital, the same outfit that recently […]

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Copper & Kings First Ever Bourbon Release, There’s Only ONE Way to Get It

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Copper & Kings Bourbon

Located in Louisville’s hip happening Butchertown area, Copper & Kings Distillery has a new experience awaiting you. Founded in 2014, the distillery is a bit of outlier as it has made its bones up to this point in Bourbon Country producing brandy and gin. But now, they are finally embracing the “when in Rome” mentality […]

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BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY Announces New “Dining Destination” Slated for 2023

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Buffalo Trace Distillery

Could waking up and smelling the Pappy (mashbill) be on the near horizon for the hospitality experience at Buffalo Trace Distillery? Today, the world renown Bourbon maker teed up some big things that are in the works, definitely an onsite restaurant experience which by itself would be a huge game changer. But could that also […]

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NEW RECORD: $19.2M for a Single Whisky Cask

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Ardbeg Distillery Scotland

The “WHinsanity” of whisk(e)y buying continues…Are you ready for this? $19.2 MILLION. For one cask. That’s one barrel of whiskey. YOUR NEW RECORD. Unbelievable but actually kinda sorta believable in the current climate where just earlier this year, the former record for a whisky cask (Scotch) was set at $18M. The new record cask goes […]

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The Only Craft Distillery in America to be a State’s #1 Overall Best Selling Whiskey: How Did They Do It?

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Cedar Ridge Distillery Iowa Whiskey

In forty-nine states a major distillery produces the #1 best-selling bourbon in the state. In many cases this is Jim Beam or Maker’s Mark or Evan Williams or often Jack Daniel’s if you count that as a bourbon (I do). But that is not the case in Iowa where a craft bourbon first released in […]

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NEW RELEASE: Old Forester’s 117 Series “Whiskey Row Fire”

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Old Forester 117 Series - Whiskey Row Fire

A catastrophic fire followed by a ground breaking ceremony, in that order, just a few weeks apart. 2015 was a particularly busy year for Old Forester. I remember attending the official ground breaking ceremony in downtown Louisville that year for what is now the Old Forester Distilling Co, a $45M+ 70,000 sq. ft. visitor experience […]

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Exclusive: Jackie Zykan Starting New Brand

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Jackie Zykan Hidden Barn Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, Sage Delaney

After her departure from Brown-Forman in June, former Old Forester Master Taster Jackie Zykan has announced her next product: Hidden Barn. Hidden Barn Whiskey will be an ongoing series of limited releases from small stocks of liquid, each blended by Zykan under collaboration with three other partners. The self-proclaimed “black sheep” is now a co-owner […]

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BREAKING: Bardstown Bourbon Company is BUYING Green River Distillery (Owensboro, KY)

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Green River Distillery

This is interesting. Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) has announced their plans to buy Green River Distillery (Formerly O.Z. Tyler) in Owensboro, KY. BBCo, est 2014, leaped directly out of the gates with a business plan for contract distilling, meaning they will work with you and make your whiskey to the mashbill and specs of your […]

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