Shanken News Daily: Beam bests Brown-Forman in bourbon brands battle
The bourbon industry gets an incredible amount of media attention worldwide partly because it’s the greatest whiskey of them all (take that Scotland and Ireland) and partly because distilling remains...
View ArticleKentucky Bourbon Festival starts Tuesday in Bardstown, runs through Sunday
The 21st-annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival, celebrating the passion, history and art of making great Kentucky bourbon, begins this week in Bardstown, running from Sept. 11-16. Hopefully this amazing...
View ArticleWSJ: German love affair with bourbon pumping up Brown-Forman, Beam sales
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Germans are abandoning their schnapps und dunkelweisen in favor of bourbon at an increasing rate. Their economy may be on the skids, and Germans are drinking less...
View ArticleSocial media critics: ‘What were Maker’s Mark execs drinking when they...
What’s the old adage about, “People drink to forget?” Well, Maker’s Mark executives better hope their most loyal fans start breaking those red wax seals with a vengeance. In what appears likely to...
View ArticleBook review: ‘Beam, Straight Up,’ shares Noe family stories and tasty bourbon...
When I received a press copy of Fred Noe’s autobiography, “Beam, Straight Up,” I had no doubt the story of this seventh-generation Jim Beam master distiller would be a good one. Noe is not only a born...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Big Belle bash might draw 300k visitors, Innovate...
Welcome to the February 18 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are biz tips Insider Louisville staff and contributors have collected during the past few days,...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Peritus PR saga takes a legal turn
Welcome to the April 1, edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are authentic biz tips – no April Fools Day nonsense here – Insider Louisville staff and...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: New audit finds KFC Yum! Center event revenue...
Welcome to the June 3 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors...
View ArticleJapan’s Suntory buying Beam brands, Kentucky’s No. 1 bourbon distiller
We thought the Japanese economy was in neutral …. Apparently not when it comes to bourbon. Suntory Holdings, famous for their faux bourbons and Scotch whiskeys (which are pretty good!) is buying the...
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