As the 21st century bourbon boom has produced many new bourbons, it also has produced many bourbon books. I’ve read a few. My favorites ha...

Kash Patel's personalized bottle of Woodford Reserve. The Atlantic isn’t letting up on Kash Patel. Today, Sarah Fitzpatrick, the reporter...

A rolling billboard for Old Forester and other Brown-Forman brands at the company headquarters and distillery on Dixie Highway in Louisvil...

Fawn Weaver and company, startled by the Harold Washington animatronic at the DuSable Museum in Chicago, June 25, 2024. The Uncle Nearest ...

The Uncle Nearest facility in Shelbyville, Tennessee. My post last Friday , made in anticipation of the hearing in Knoxville federal court...

Sales of all major spirits categories fell except for one: Ready-to-drink cocktails made major gains.

Watching Mary Martin's "Peter Pan" on TV was a major milestone for young boomers.  NBC was the first American television network to broadc...

The United States invaded another country to arrest its president. Is that legal? When Russia invaded Ukraine, international law was invok...

The "drunk monkey" hypothesis suggests humans evolved from primates that ate fermented fruit. A recent article in The Economist features ...

The auction cements the spirit's top shelf position among alternative assets while highlighting the appeal of sellers and buyers flocking to Unicorn Auctions.

Major brands in the portfolio of Suntory Global Spirits. Whiskey is unlike most manufactured products in a way that even close watchers of...

As seen on the TTB website. When approved labels appear on the website of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) , t...

Fred and Freddie Noe at the Beam Distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. As reported today by the Kentucky Herald-Leader , Louisville Business F...

Typical warehouse shot but I took this one myself. Pretty sure it's Barton 1792. Janet Patton and the Kentucky Herald-Leader are indispen...

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Eighty years ago today my father, Ken Cowdery, was at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. He was a 21-year-old private in t...

Dad and his boys (and new Buick convertible), 1957. (Photo by Mom.) On this day in 1941, J. K. 'Ken' Cowdery (my father) was in the Arm...

Jack Daniel's brand family (2025) The photograph above was used today by the Kentucky Herald-Leader to illustrate a story about quarterly...

Karl liked his brewski as much as the next guy. According to etymologists, the word ' socialism ' has its root in the Latin sociare , whi...

That's a wrap. Some of you figured this out before I did. The last post on this blog was August 4th, more than two months ago. I've never ...

It was unclear what the owner’s role will be in marketing Nearest Green.

On Monday, a federal judge issued a gag order in the Nearest Green Distillery lawsuit. The ruling on the plaintiff's request for a receivership remains outstanding.

YouTube video by Charles Cowdery

A high-stakes legal battle is unfolding in federal court that could shake the foundations of one of Tennessee’s most celebrated whiskey stories.

Stamping Ground is a small town in Kentucky's Scott County (pop. 780). It is about 25 miles northwest of Lexington and eight miles from Ge...

What might have been? A brand new distillery, shuttered by its lenders. Kentucky's best source for dependable bourbon news is the Lexingto...