By Distillery Trail The James E. Pepper Distillery or Jas. E. Pepper Distillery was one of the few distilleries in the country to survive Prohibition. Unfortunately, it didn’t survive the 50’s. The distillery that was founded in 1879 was mothballed in 1958 and for the most part the building and its contents has sat rotting…
Published on May 12, 2016 Call Family Distillers is a legal moonshine distillery in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. The Call family has a rich family history in making liquor, from Reverend Dan Call who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey, up to Willie Clay Call, a famous moonshine hauler called “The Uncatchable”. Owner Brian Call…
By Eric King WLKY LOUISVILLE, Ky. —If you tell someone from out of state that you’re from Kentucky, one of the first things they’ll likely bring up is bourbon. No state does it better, and no place in the world produces more of it. Ninety-five percent of the world’s bourbon comes from the Bluegrass State. In…
Published on May 10, 2016 Master Distillers of the American Spirit, the Bardstown Bourbon Company is scheduled to open in 2016. This state-of-the-art bourbon distillery will feature tours and celebrate the history of bourbon. Located in the bourbon capital of the world in beautiful Bardstown Kentucky, the Bardstown Bourbon Company celebrates local hospitality and heritage….
Poor as they were, Irish immigrants brought to America a treasure worth its weight in gold. “Uisce beatha,” they called it in the old country, or, roughly translated, “water of life.” … The “Stone Breaker” name is a nod to the backbreaking work once performed by Michael’s immigrant forebears, who in the 1800s used picks…
By Distillery Trail Posted April 20, 2016 64 acres just off of Kentucky Interstate 64 leads to the construction site of one of Kentucky’s newest distilleries, Jeptha Creed Distillery. The Jeptha Creed Distillery startup story is like many other craft spirits distillery startup stories with one exception, this new distillery operation is run…
By Natalia Martinez, Reporter LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – An empty lot in NuLu will soon be transformed. More than $12 million is being invested in the new Rabbit Hole Distillery that promises to be as cool as the reputation NuLu gets. Read entire article on Wave3.com
Click here to see The Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Still Installation as shared on Facebook Live on 4/14/16 The Courier Journal also posted the following article: A new Bourbon Trail experience in Bardstown Alton Strupp, [email protected] …A 50-foot Vendome Copper & Brass Works still was suspended in the air over 60-feet against a clear, blue sky backdrop Thursday…
Collin Czarnecki, [email protected]:51 p.m. CDT March 31, 2016 About 20 minutes northwest, Kennedy gets to witness his dream of opening up a distillery become a reality as well. His 5,000 square foot distillery, as well as a 2,500 square foot log cabin, rests on 30 acres in Leiper’s Fork. The log cabin, built in 1825,…
Two James Spirits is a small distillery located in the once-mighty American city of Detroit, Michigan. It is the first licensed whiskey maker to open there since Prohibition, and it is part of a movement to breathe life back into Motor City. There seems to be some exciting whiskies coming from this distilling team, the…
18th March, 2016 by Kristiane Sherry Wilderness Trail opened in Danville in 2013, and is in the process of expanding into a 21-acre lot. The team this week took delivery of new 4,000 gallon fermenters, a cool tank and a beer well from Vendome Copper & Brass Works. A new 40-foot column still will be…
By G. Chambers Williams Iii, [email protected] Popcorn Sutton Distilling in Newport is rolling out its first batch of barrel-aged spirits in time to commemorate the death of Sutton, who took his own life on March 16, 2009. The product is aged a minimum of three years in charred oak barrels. These are two of…
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