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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...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Is Kentucky's $9 Billion Bourbon Business On-the-Rocks?

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  What might have been? A brand new distillery, shuttered by its lenders. Kentucky's best source for dependable bourbon news is the Lexi...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

The Deal that Made Me a Catholic

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  Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Cowdery, July 1, 1950. My mother’s family was Roman Catholic and devoutly so. My father’s family was, as he described i...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

America's Craft Spirits Industry Grows Up

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  Denver's Leopold Bros is an example of a successful, independent craft distillery. Many new non-distiller producers want to become dis...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

The Rise of Craft Distilling and “Craft-Washing"

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  The former Seagram's Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana was the source of many "craft" whiskeys. Craft distilling grew thro...
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Saturday, May 24, 2025

The Obscure Origin of the Craft Distilling Movement

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This booklet was published by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy in 1982. According to the American Craft Spirits Association, t...
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Friday, May 2, 2025

The New Unicorns: a $20 Handle

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  Screenshot from the Binny's website, 5/2/2025. Traditionally in the whiskey world, a "unicorn" is a whiskey that is highly s...
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