Tag: distilling

There’s been a lot of press about “the bourbon boom” over the past few years. Much of it has focused on how many barrels are aging in Kentucky and how many more people are drinking it. But bourbon production also…

One of the earliest known recipes for sour mash dates to 1818 and is attributed to a woman. Catherine Carpenter of Casey County, Ky., ran her husband’s distillery after his death and recorded recipes for both sour and sweet mash….

One of the earliest known recipes for sour mash dates to 1818 and is attributed to a woman. Catherine Carpenter of Casey County, Ky., ran her husband’s distillery after his death and recorded recipes for both sour and sweet mash. Source: “Kentucky…

For almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been hearing that Angel’s Envy was going to build a distillery somewhere along Louisville’s Whiskey Row. Yesterday, on the blog’s second birthday (cheers!), Louisville Distilling Co., the company that…

Carla Carlton, “The Bourbon Babe,” is an award-winning bourbon journalist based in her home state of Kentucky, which produces 95 percent of America’s native spirit. Stay tuned with us as we transform the site – currently under construction! More to…

A native Kentuckian is making whiskey and bourbon in the first legal distillery in New York City since Prohibition. Read more about Colin Spoelman and his Kings County Distillery, part of a wave of small-batch distilleries in New York and…