Distilling the South by Kathleen Purvis

Author:Kathleen Purvis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

George Pogue (center) leads a tasting at a bar set up in the nineteenth-century house on the Ohio River where generations of his family once lived in the town that first put bourbon on the map.

While Kentucky’s historic ties to distilling have been helpful to start-ups, Tennessee’s rules since Prohibition had been much more strict, with the two biggest distilleries, Jack Daniel’s and George Dickel, grandfathered in. In 2009, the state made a big change, passing a law that allows distilling in any county that already has liquor stores and liquor-by-the-drink. That’s opened up big areas of the state, and every major city now has distilleries.

For this tour, we’ll start on the eastern edge of Kentucky’s whiskey-producing region, in Lexington, and work our way north, then west to Louisville, south to Nashville, and back east, ending in Knoxville. We’ll include a stop near Lynchburg, Tennessee, just in case you can’t resist a stop at that big Jack Daniel’s factory on the hill.

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