Bourbon's backroads : a journey through Kentucky's distilling landscape / Karl Raitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raitz, Karl B., author.

Series:

Kentucky scholarship online.

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourbon whiskey--Kentucky--History.

Bourbon whiskey.

Distilleries--Kentucky--History.

Distilleries.

Distilling industries--Kentucky--History.

Distilling industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : South Limestone, 2020.

Summary:

Part I of this book is a geographic history of Kentucky's distilling industry, focusing on the nineteenth century. Kentucky distillers have produced alcohol spirits, bourbon, and rye whiskeys for more than two centuries. This part examines the change from craft distilling practiced by farmers and millers to large-scale industrial distilling using mechanized processes and refined production techniques. The nineteenth-century temperance movement eventually led to national Prohibition, which was in effect from 1920 to 1933. A small number of distillers survived by making medicinal whiskey. Part II consists of three chapters that outline the concentration of industrial distilling in the Inner and Outer Bluegrass regions as well as in Ohio Valley cities.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8131-7843-6

0-8131-7844-4