Thursday, December 11, 2025

Year-on-Year Bourbon Production Is Down 28% and That's Good News

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  Typical warehouse shot but I took this one myself. Pretty sure it's Barton 1792. Janet Patton and the Kentucky Herald-Leader are indi...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Today in Jack Daniel's Kremlinology*

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  Jack Daniel's brand family (2025) The photograph above was used today by the Kentucky Herald-Leader to illustrate a story about quart...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Getting It Right the First Time

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Finished last night after I got home from the Marty Stuart concert in Skokie. I have a running joke with another writer on the whiskey beat....
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

America Should End Its Socialist Liquor System Now

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  Karl liked his brewski as much as the next guy. According to etymologists, the word ' socialism ' has its root in the Latin sociar...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

To Everything There Is a Season and a Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven

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  That's a wrap. Some of you figured this out before I did. The last post on this blog was August 4th, more than two months ago. I'v...
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Monday, August 4, 2025

"Made and Bottled in Kentucky" Is Now on YouTube

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  In 1991, in anticipation of 200 years of Kentucky statehood, which occurred in 1992, the Kentucky legislature appropriated money for the s...
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Monday, July 21, 2025

The Return of Buffalo Springs (Sort of)

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  Stamping Ground is a small town in Kentucky's Scott County (pop. 780). It is about 25 miles northwest of Lexington and eight miles fro...