The crew of BackstageOL recently got a chance to visit the Maker’s Mark distillery in Loretto, KY. An hour’s drive outside of Louisville, the Maker’s Mark distillery has become an iconic brand of Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
By Shawn Field – Bridgeland Distillery. This Calgary Distillery Has A 100-Year Old History Hidden Inside. Read the rest here.
by Distillery Trail. Garrard County Distilling Co.(prev. All Nations Distillery) in Lancaster, Kentucky has announced its startup $250 million distillery is now operational. The new distillery in Garrard County, which up until last November was in a dry county, will be making up to 150,000 barrels of Kentucky bourbon and rye whiskey a year. Read…
By Distillery Trail. Long before there was bourbon, there was beer. And beer, a locally brewed Belgian style table beer, is what Jane Bowie and Denny Potter chose to celebrate the groundbreaking for their new distillery. Read the rest here. Potter Jane’s tanks (seen below) are some of the first to come out of Vendome’s…
By Distillery Trail. As an early kickoff to 2023 Bourbon Heritage Month, the family-owned distillery celebrated a long-awaited victory as they air lifted their 60’ tall Vendome Copper & Brass Works copper column still into place for their nearly $200 million Heaven Hill Springs Distillery project. Read the rest here.
Tradition, Innovation, Terroir @ Bridgeland Distillery: A story! – Posted here by Bridgeland Distillery
by Jim Vinoski (Forbes) For the Sherman cousins to be explaining the unprecedented nature of the current bourbon boom is really saying something. They’re fourth-generation part owners of a business that dates to the beginning of the 20th century, which has certainly seen booms and busts before. To read the article in it’s entirety Click…