Kentucky’s entire Private Barrel Selection (PBS) program is in jeopardy, but there’s hope – YOU CAN HELP! The time for action is NOW. As of today, there are only 7 works days remaining for HB 500 to clear the last and final critical step for passage in KY legislation via the KY Senate. This is […]
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Try imagining an imbibing world without any KY Private Barrel Selections (PBS). We agree, bad idea. It is a disturbing possibility however as state level regulators have publicly aired that as it currently exists, PBS are NOT technically legal. New legislation is necessary in order to create the proper legal channels allowing PBS to commence […]
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As of March 7, Bardstown Bourbon Company is the property of Pritzker Private Capital (PPC), a Chicago-based private equity owner of several manufacturing companies. (Click here for the news release.) Though BBC’s journey from conception (2013) to groun…
In Chuck Cowdery’s early 2022 edition of his quarterly print piece, “The Bourbon Country Reader,” he says MGP should kill off the George Remus brand and find another name for the otherwise good bourbon created for that SKU. Not only was he a successful…
Ever played this whiskey dork game? You go to a bar or restaurant and rapid-survey the bottles while thinking, “Had it. Haven’t. Have it. Hate it.” When I looked at this list of 20 top-selling whiskeys in the U.S., I added a new response. “Who drinks t…
Roughly six years after Terressentia Corp. began making respectable whiskey at the O.Z. Tyler Distillery here, the properly renamed Green River Distilling Co. staged a blowout release party for its namesake 5-year-old bourbon. On the very location wher…
MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI) announced it has begun a $12 million barrel warehouse expansion to meet growing consumer demand for its American whiskey. Construction of the new barrel warehouse facility has recently begun in Williamstown, Kentucky, and marks the company’s second major investment in its distilled spirits operations in recent months. The warehouse expansion […]
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The words “quick action” and “legislation” don’t normally go hand-in-hand. But in the land of Bourbon, hey, desperate times call for desperate measures. Earlier this month, we splashed a story on how Kentucky’s entire “Private Barrel Selection” (PBS) program was called out at a Fall 2021 legislative session by the state regulatory eyes under the […]
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That’s the growing concern at Kentucky distilleries, where thousands of whiskey fans sample whiskeys from thousands of barrels every year. The news first came from WhiskeyCast operator Mark Gillespie, who’d learned that “private pick” programs—which di…
I saw the headline this week “Private Barrel Kentucky Bourbon In Legal Jeopardy” from Whiskycast’s Mark Gillespie (very good guy btw who runs a terrific show). I immediately thought to myself “Oh sh**, there’s no way”. But when it comes to booze and laws, hey, anything can happen. Look at Prohibition. A tingle of fear slowly crept in. […]
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