by NBBAdmin | Jul 16, 2019 | News
The bourbon roots of Mountain Dew – now the country’s third-most popular soft drink – began because two Knoxville brothers needed a tasty mixer for their bourbon. That 1940s-styled Mountain Dew didn’t taste like today’s lemonade-citrus, caffeine- and sugar-charged...
by NBBAdmin | Jun 27, 2019 | News
In archives across Kentucky, Erin Wiggins Gilliam is on a search for the faces and names of slaves who worked in America’s first whiskey distilleries. She and others know for a fact that slaves helped create what is now one of the country’s most iconic...
by NBBAdmin | May 27, 2019 | News
Just off the release of his new Legent bourbon, Noe is thinking cross-culturally. He created the whiskey with Shinji Fukuyo, chief blender of parent company Suntory, combining Japanese blending techniques with a Kentucky straight bourbon mashbill and tradition. They...
by NBBAdmin | Apr 13, 2019 | Products
Whether it’s Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, or good old Kentucky bourbon, whiskey drinkers spend a lot of time and money on finding the perfect dram to drink. But how often do we give serious thought to what we’re drinking it out of? While whiskey is typically served...
by NBBAdmin | Apr 2, 2019 | News
Scientists are beginning to unlock the scientific secrets of what makes so-called “Tennessee whiskey” so distinct from other whiskeys, bourbons, and similar spirits, according to a presentation last weekend at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in...
