People come to Woodford Reserve and Jim Beam and Evan Williams because these are brands that their family has enjoyed for generations, and they want to ‘come home’ – to see where it’s made and walk in the footsteps of…
The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…
I am quite sure that we are the only store in America where you can buy a gun, country ham, beer, and a pound of C4 plastic explosive. With the proper credentials, of course. Patrick Hayden, owner of Keene’s Depot…
The literary critic and language expert H.L. Mencken put together his own list of synonyms for the word ‘drunk.’ They included: snooted, stewed, jugged, jagged and pifflicated. From “Our Longing for Lists,” an op-ed piece in the Sept. 2 New…
The trend in our society in making bread, cheese, wine, beer – and now it’s our turn in the spirit business – is to be organic, to be as local as you can. Your hands are touching the soil and…
My predecessor started the passport program in 2007, and 186 people completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that year. In five years we went from 186 people to nearly 12,000. We can’t print T-shirts fast enough. Eric Gregory, president of the…
I thought that to have a complex drink, you had to have lots of ingredients. The reality is …. you can get a lot of complexity in an Old Fashioned with a good 100 proof whiskey, a good rich simple…
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass and grass. And I love you, too. Tom T. Hall, songwriter, born May 25, 1936, in Olive Hill, Ky.
