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Log Still Distillery’s Tasting Room Set To Open May 18th Log Still Distillery’s Tasting Room Set To Open May 18th Kentucky state and local officials joined the Dant family, owners of the new Log Still distillery, this past week to cut the ribbon on the distillery’s tasting room, which signifies a major step forward for a two-phase project expected to create 146 full-time jobs with $36 million in total investment. “This is a great day for Nelson County and Kentucky’s thriving bourbon industry,” said Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear in a prepared statement. “Log Still Distillery’s campus embodies everything that makes the bourbon industry so important to our state. This project will provide economic growth for the surrounding area while attracting visitors from across the state and beyond our borders. ....
A brand new distillery will soon come on line, but Log Still will have a pedigree that goes back about as far as bourbon itself. And at the helm of that venture is JW Dant, a name you might recognize as a brand by the same name is still sold today, by Heaven Hill. The Log Still story really began in 1836, when JW Dant made a still from a hollowed-out poplar log, firing up his family’s legacy in the Kentucky bourbon business. And while multiple generations of Dants followed in JW’s footsteps, the family had gotten out of the bourbon business altogether … until now, as JW’s great-great-great-grandson Wally Dant has come to revive the family legacy. ....