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What good is a car if it’s never driven? What good is a toy if it’s never played with? What good is a recipe if nothing is made with it? Spencer Balentine had made a name for himself and his family with Silver Trail Distillery and LBL’s Most Wanted Moonshine, but the 2015 explosion of his distillery, which killed one worker and severely injured another, ground his operation to a halt. “After the accident, I was still making the moonshine but the distributor stopped marketing it, which pretty much put me out of business,” Balentine said recently from his Hardin home.

HARDIN – Although Hardin’s Silver Trail Distillery is no longer in operation, founder Spencer Balentine has formed a new partnership with a Paducah distillery and the daughter of country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette to continue making his family’s century-old recipe for apple-cinnamon whiskey. Balentine founded Silver Trail Distillery in 2011 to make moonshine from a family recipe handed down to him by his father. The distillery manufactured LBL’s Most Wanted, which was a clear, unaged, 100 proof (50% alcohol by volume) corn whiskey, as well as an 80 proof ...