The New Bourbon Country Reader Will be in the Mail Shortly

The latest issue of The Bourbon Country Reader is at the printer now and will be mailed in a few days.

This time, it's just two long pieces. In the main one, Limestone Branch Distillery in Lebanon is the jumping-off place for a long examination of the history of the Pottingers, Dants, and a few Beams, all crucial to the earliest development of whiskey-making in southern Nelson County and western Marion County, with key appearances by the L & N Railroad and American industrialist Armand Hammer. Limestone's Steve Beam, who helped, said it was complicated and he was right, but this sorts it out pretty well.

Prohibition cost us so much of our bourbon heritage.

In the other piece, size is the subject; still size, that is. Distilleries are being built right now at a pace not seen in the United States for generations. What can still sizes tell us about where the industry is heading? We look at a few new and proposed distilleries, and some of the established ones, to see what's really going on.

This is Volume 16, Number 2 of The Bourbon Country Reader, and if you are a regular visitor to this blog, it's time to pull the trigger and get a subscription. Happily, a subscription to The Bourbon Country Reader is still just $20 per year (six issues) for addresses in the USA, $25 for everyone else. The Bourbon Country Reader is always independent and idiosyncratic and has no distillery affiliation. It is published six times a year, or thereabouts.

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