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

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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...

Lexington-based RD1 Spirits became the 47th distillery to join the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, the distillers’ group announced Thursday. RD1 Spirits were initially founded in 1865 as the Ashland Distillery and became the first company to obtain a federally registered distillery license in Lexington. The distillery closed due to Prohibition in 1933 but was revived with its current name in 2020. RD1 Spirits, which received its Class B distiller’s license in December, anticipates beginning construction on its new facility by the end of the first quarter of 2022. The inaugural RD1 Spirits releases pay tribute to William Tarr, who purchased Ashland...