In the mid-1800s (1850ish) a man named Sewell T. Taylor sold his bar, named “Merchants Exchange Coffee House”, to a man named Aaron Bird. Taylor then started importing spirits, like Cognac, and Bird changed the name of the bar to the Sazerac Coffee House. At some point Bird started using Taylor imported Cognac (Sazerac-de-Forge et […]
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By Mark Gillespie September 11, 2021 – With the biggest weekend of the year in the “Bourbon Capital of the World” just a few days away, visitors to Bardstown, Kentucky for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival may be greeted with picket signs at the town’s newest attraction. Heaven Hill workers started a strike today after their five-year contract expired at midnight and are staffing a picket line outside the Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience, which opened this summer after a two-year renovation and upgrade project. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23-D voted overwhelmingly in favor of the strike Read More »
It has been FAR too long. We apologize for our absence, but we really think this is a solid cast. We did a lot of research and have tried to do a thorough explanation of what the flavor compounds are in bourbon and where they come from; down to the molecular level! Special thanks to…
