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In this episode, they speak to Barry Brinegar of William Tarr Distillery in Lexington, Kentucky, and Moonshine University out of Louisville, Kentucky.

Co-hosts : Made Man Brent, Good ol Boy Alan, Made Man Maury, Good ol Boy Justin, and Made Man Bob SIPS  Episode –  A bunch of sourced whiskey from MGP. Nothing worse than having the Dead Man’s Hand. You should bet on this whiskey. Thank god the lawyers are not doing the math on what makes quality whiskey. Fred Noe walks in and crushes the conversation on quality with an interesting 15-year Knob Creek. Beam is sitting on the largest inventory of well-aged whiskey in KY. We taste and rate the following whiskey from 1-5:   6:40 Deadwood Straight Bourbon-  81 proof...

Steve & Jeremy interview Barry Brinegar of Wm. Tarr Distillery in Lexington. The Bourbon Show music (Whiskey on the Mississippi) is by Kevin MacLeod

Celebrate Your Constitutional Right to Drink with Wm. Tarr Distillery Insiders relish the day Americans regained their freedom to consume alcohol On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution passed, making all production and consumption of alcohol illegal. So began Prohibition, widely known as one of the darkest periods in American history. Crime, drunkenness, and distrust for the government ran rampant in the U.S., and some people saw no way out. Wm. Tarr Distillery, founded in 1865 in Lexington, KY as the Ashland Distillery, struggled immensely during this time. On a cold March night in 1920, a...