In light of yesterday (Oct. 28) being the 94th anniversary of the day Congress passed the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, thus beginning Prohibition, here is an interesting fact from Sam K. Cecil’s book, “The Evolution of the…
The word “speakeasy,” first used to describe an unlicensed saloon around 1890, is the combination of the words speak + easy, from the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not…
The first malting house in Kentucky was in Woodford County. There are no longer any malting houses in the state. Corsair Artisan Distillery, which has operations in both Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., is planning a malt house at…
I’m going to be featuring a lot of tasting notes on the blog this week, so in today’s Trivia I’m sharing a tip for tasting bourbon: Don’t ”nose” it the way you do wine. You know how you stick your whole nose…
The Kentucky Distillers’ Association originally formed in 1880, when 32 distillers met at the Galt House in Louisville and organized to protect bourbon from “needless and obstructive laws and regulations.” One pretty big obstructive law, Prohibition, led to the KDA’s…
If you threw a party for the whole world, and served only the bourbon that is now aging in barrels in Kentucky, every man, woman and child* on the planet could have four drinks apiece. Source: Colin Blake, creative director…
If you threw a party for the whole world, and served only the bourbon that is now aging in barrels in Kentucky, every man, woman and child* on the planet could have four drinks apiece. Source: Colin Blake, creative director for…
Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender. In 1833 he opened Berry and Lincoln, a store and saloon in New Salem, Ill., with William F. Berry, a friend from his militia days. What did they…
Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender. In 1833 he opened Berry and Lincoln, a store and saloon in New Salem, Ill., with William F. Berry, a friend from his militia days. What did they serve? According…
During Prohibition, a rum-runner named William Frederick McCoy was known for never watering down his product – when you bought spirits from him, you were sure to get the genuine deal. Some say this is the origin of the phrase “the…
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