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Together the Kentucky natives are hoping to put a new spin on a local tradition while also reaching some historic milestones.

Kentucky bourbon distillers have long been a bastion of white men, but these days, things are changing.

Column: On Legacies And Lawsuits, Who Was Really First, And The Rapid Bourbon Festival Sell-Out Column: On Legacies And Lawsuits, Who Was Really First, And The Rapid Bourbon Festival Sell-Out Bourbon is broken. Sounds really funny if you sing it like Cat Stevens’s song, “Morning is Broken.” But writer Brent Joseph’s claim that “bourbon is broken” because it’s stalked and hoarded and resold on the secondary market and drives up prices—lacks all humor because it’s all happening at the hands of unscrupulous buyers and resellers. In his four-part Bourbon & Banter opinion piece, ...

Argument brews over Kentucky's first Black-owned distillery March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A disagreement is brewing over who started the first Black-owned distillery in Kentucky. Victory Global, operating as Brough Brothers Distillery in Louisville, filed a federal lawsuit this month accusing Fresh Bourbon Distilling Co. in Lexington of “unfair competition for false advertising" after its owners claimed to be Kentucky's first Black-owned distillery, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. Fresh Bourbon does not have its own distillery and does not have the neces...

On its website, Fresh Bourbon says it's recognized by the commonwealth as the "first African Americans to make Kentucky bourbon that were not slaves."