BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 18 June 2021, by Susan Reigler
Distillers/collaborators, left to right: Matthew Jackson (Preservation Distillery), Lynne Dant (Log Still Distillery), Steve Nally (Bardstown Bourbon Co.), Freddie Noe (Jim Beam), and Conor O’Driscoll (Heaven Hill).
Bourbon Country Collaboration Involves Multiple Distilleries
Bardstown, Kentucky proclaims itself to be “The Bourbon Capital of the World,” and since it has 11 operations distilling, warehousing, and bottling bourbon within a 30-minute drive from the center of town, that designation seems pretty fitting. Recently several of those distilleries announced a new project that will help worthy causes in Bardstown.
The Bardstown Collection, http://bardstowncollection.com, will be a series of special bottlings from Bardstown Bourbon Company, Heaven Hill Distillery, Jim B. Beam Distilling Co., Log Still Distillery, and Preservation Distillery. They are scheduled for their first release this September, which also happens to be National Bourbon Heritage Month. The idea is to support the people of Bardstown,...
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