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Monday, October 17, 2022

The Eventful Year 2012

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Jim Beam's American Stillhouse opened in 2012. The last two decades have been a whirlwind for fans of American whiskey. As we start to l...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The Building Where My Dad Worked for 40 Years Is Being Demolished Today

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  'A' Building at Westinghouse Mansfield, in its heyday. It is a milestone few will note , as the Westinghouse 'A' Building ...
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Monday, September 26, 2022

A Century Ago, a Whiskey Warehouse Fire Inspired a Popular Novel

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  Red Likker, a novel by Irvin S. Cobb (1929) Almost a century ago, a spectacular and suspicious fire at a whiskey warehouse in Kentucky in...
Monday, September 19, 2022

The Truth About Moonshine.

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The romanticized image of moonshine. Hate sits alone on the hood of his car. Without much regard to the moon or the stars. Lazily killing th...
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Thursday, September 1, 2022

About That Whiskey Warehouse Demolished Yesterday

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  The Nelson Distillery Warehouse, Louisville, looking east from Lexington Road. (Demolished 8/31/2022.) As reported by WDRB.com , the Nelso...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

What Do 'High Rye' and 'Low Rye' Mean?

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To be called bourbon it must be at least 51% corn. The rest may be any grain. "What does the industry mean when they say 'high'...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Guess Who Was an International Theater Authority?

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In June 2008, the second year of this blog, I wrote a post about Chicago theater based on a performance I had attended the night before, an...
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