By Richard Thomas Alltech, owners of Lexington, Kentucky’s Town Branch Distillery, intend to break ground on their Pikeville distillery on Thursday morning. Readers of The Whiskey Reviewer first learned of Alltech’s desire to build a legal moonshine distillery in Pikeville, located deep in southeastern Kentucky’s coal country, via a Facebook bulletin in April 2014. The following July, the state of ...

By Richard Thomas When I first saw George Motz appearing in one of his hamburger-loving documentaries, I thought to myself “that looks like a fellow who likes a belt of bourbon.” As it turns out, I guessed absolutely right! Motz not only likes a good bourbon or rye, but is even in the midst of making a film about moonshine ...

By Richard Thomas It’s a year behind the original schedule, but Peerless Distilling opened the doors on their new Louisville, Kentucky distillery yesterday, reviving a century-old brand in the process. Started by Cory Taylor, the great grandson of the founder of the original Peerless Distilling, the new company has plans to start with a line of unaged, legal moonshine-style whiskeys ...

By Richard Thomas Imagine that a wine and travel magazine, such as Wine Spectator or Food and Wine, wanted to do a piece on the rose wines from Ibizia, and how they were so enjoyable in the hot climate there and would therefore be just as enjoyable in similar places in the United States. Now imagine such a magazine giving ...

By Richard Thomas The funeral for Kyle Rogers, who died on Monday as a result of injuries sustained in the April 24 fire and explosion at Silver Trail Distillery, located in Kentucky’s Land Between The Lakes region. Rogers, aged 27, was working as distiller at Silver Trail. He had previously worked as a sports writer for two newspapers in Western ...