Angel’s Envy will be introducing their lengthy-named Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Oloroso Sherry Casks [whew!] – but, alas – only in Kentucky. Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Finished in Oloroso Sherry Casks was finished in – duh – Oloroso sherry casks before being bottled at 50% alcohol by volume [100 […]
Old Forester Distilling has opened their new $45 million, three-story, 70,000-square foot distillery in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on Main Street [dubbed Whiskey Row due to its place as the epicenter of the Bourbon industry in Kentucky]. Old Forester Distilling Co. will add production capacity of approximately 100,000 proof gallons annually. Visitors interested in participating in […]
Wild Turkey Bourbon spokesman [and actor] Matthew McConaughey helped to deliver more than 4500 Butterball turkeys to the locals around Lawrenceburg, Kentucky just ahead of Thanksgiving…
A real life fireball struck the Jim Beam factory in Kentucky when archived footage was released on The Weather Channel last week of a 2003 lightning strike on a retention pond at the factory that then ignited the bourbon-laden water and whipped it up into a brief “firenado” that then caused a fire in the […]
Fox television is reportedly considering producing a scripted television drama series based on the Kentucky bourbon industry. The plot of the potential, as-yet-untitled series would revolve around the patriarch of a signature Kentucky bourbon maker who has a public meltdown – forcing his children/heirs to both deal with each other as well as his sordid […]
There are two parts of a skeleton key – the blade and bow – and that is the symbolism used for the new Blade and Bow Kentucky Straight Bourbon whiskey, which uses the skeleton key reference as a way of paying tribute to the Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. Blade and Bow will be released […]
Elijah Craig 12-Year-Old Kentucky Whiskey is a small batch bourbon [47% alcohol content, 94 proof] from Heaven Hill Distillery. The whiskey is named after a religious leader from Virginia who accidentally discovered the joys of bourbon after a fire charred his barrel collection. At least that’s the story and Heaven Hill is sticking to it. […]
For six or seven years – authorities still are not sure when exactly – dozens of “rogue” workers at the Buffalo Trace and Wild Turkey distilleries made off with the company bourbon – specifically the two namesake distillery bourbons and whiskies as well as Pappy Van Winkle and Eagle Rare bourbon. Nine people were arrested […]