Kentucky’s Lost Bourbon Distilleries | Berkeley & Jeanine Scott

Kentucky’s Lost Bourbon Distilleries by Berkeley Scott and Jeanine Scott is a historical bourbon book about the distilleries that once shaped the Kentucky landscape but have since disappeared.

Kentucky bourbon is world famous, and the distillation of this corn-based whiskey has deep roots in almost every corner of the state. Before 1920, hundreds of distilleries were active, until Prohibition forced most of the industry to close.

Many of these distilleries never reopened. Others returned briefly after the end of Prohibition in 1933 during a renewed bourbon boom, only to close again a few decades later.

The book tells the story of these “lost distilleries” through history, old photographs and memories of the people who worked there. In some cases, only warehouses, names, labels or fragments of buildings remain, but their influence on Kentucky bourbon is still felt.

Kentucky’s Lost Bourbon Distilleries is not a tasting guide, but an appealing historical whiskey book for lovers of bourbon heritage, American whiskey history, vanished distilleries and the cultural identity of Kentucky.

Book Details
Language: English
Format: Softcover
Pages: 128
Authors: Berkeley Scott & Jeanine Scott
ISBN / barcode: 9781467109901
Weight: 0.35 kg
Subject: Kentucky bourbon, lost distilleries, Prohibition, American whiskey, bourbon history, Kentucky heritage