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It’S been a mere 79 years since
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the
21st Amendment up-ending the
Volstead Act, enacted over President
Wilson’s veto 14 years earlier. Yet,
while craft distilleries have sprung into
prominence all around the country, only
four are operating in Kentucky (Corsair
in Bowling green, M.B. Rowland in
Pembroke, and Lyons Spirits and Barrel
House, both in Lexington). That is very
much about to change. No less than nine
new distilleries are starting up, or in the
case of Michter’s and Kentucky Bourbon
Distillers, starting over, in Kentucky.
Three of them will join Brown-Forman
inside Louisville’s city limits—the first to
do so since the great exodus of distilleries
at the start of “the Noble Experiment” of
Prohibition in 1919.
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Whiskey
Explodes in
Kentucky
By Pennfield Jensen
P H O T O G R A P H Y . B Y . A N D R E A . H U T C H I N S O N
The brown hotel These walls have been and continue to
be witness to many a discussion of the nuances of whiskey.