<div>Bourbon News & Notes: Bourbon Women SIPosium, Dickel Bourbon, and a Black Manhattan</div>
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 13 August 2021, by Susan Reigler Attend the Bourbon Women SIPosium Virtually The Bourbon Women Association is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since its beginning in Louisville in 2011, it has grown to having members in 38 states. (Disclosure: I am a member and a former board chair.) This year’s annual SIPosium conference being held at the Hyatt Regency downtown sold out within a week of registration’s opening. But the good news is that even if you are not a member, you can attend many of the events virtually. Among highlights are a luncheon with Victoria Eady Butler of Uncle Nearest Distillery (Tennessee), several sensory training workshops, history sessions, and examinations of corn, barrel making, and whiskey terroir. There’s even a Scotch whiskey workshop. Presenters include whiskey scientist Ale Ochoa from TX Whiskey (Texas), distiller Becky Harris of Catoctin Creek (Virginia), Brown-Forman’s assista ......Read more