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303 - Dixon Leaves KY Owl, Indiana Rye Whiskey, and an Upcoming Glut on Bourbon Community Roundtable #56

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this 56th Bourbon Community Roundtable, we discuss what it means to Kentucky Owl now that Dixon Dedman is leaving the brand, what does Indiana Rye Whiskey mean as a new legal designation, and now that there are 10 million barrels aging in Kentucky, will we see an oncoming glut of bourbon in a few years? Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick (@fredminnick) talks about the color of whiskey. Dixon Dedman leaves KY Owl. What does that mean for the brand? What does Indiana Rye Whiskey mean as a new legal designation? Now that there are 10M barrels aging in KY, will we see a glut of bourbon in a few years? Thanks to @bourbonr, @breakingbourbon, and @sippn_corn for joining. Support this Podcast on Patreon

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are people going to continue saying, oh, it's just our rye whiskey?

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Or are they going to start labeling it and saying, this is Indiana rye whiskey?

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I'm surprised.

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It's 51% right.

0:11.2

I thought it would be 94% or higher.

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This is episode 303 of Bourbon Pursuit, the podcast featuring news, reviews, and interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen.

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I'm one of your host, Kenny Coleman, and before we start today's episode, on the 56th

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Bourbon Community Roundtable,

0:38.6

here's your weekly Bourbon News Update. Jeff Arnett, the former master distiller of Jack Daniels

0:43.8

and our guest back on episode 150, has announced he is now the co-founder of Tennessee's newest

0:50.0

distillery called Company Distilling, and it's set to open in the fall of 2021 in the Smoky Mountains

0:56.0

of East Tennessee. The first company distilling location to open will be a 4,000 square foot

1:00.8

tasting room and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee, with aspirations to move into a 20,000 square foot

1:06.6

refurbished building that will have a tasting room, restaurant, brewery, retail store, and

1:11.7

entertainment more in 2022. Green River Distilling, formerly known as OZ Tyler, based out of Owensboro,

1:19.8

Kentucky, paused briefly to celebrate the filling of its 300,000th barrel of bourbon, with each

1:25.9

barrel holding roughly 53 gallons, that's 15.9 million barrel of bourbon. With each barrel holding roughly 53 gallons, that's 15.9 million

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gallons of bourbon. Jacob Kahl, the Green River's master distiller and director of operations,

1:35.5

said it took nearly four and a half years to reach that 300,000th mark. But now with production

1:40.2

running at 90,000 barrels per year, those milestones will start coming a lot faster. New

1:46.3

Rift Distillery has announced its opening a $2 million expansion that will increase its whiskey

1:50.9

production by 50%. This will add 900 square feet to the distillery, which will have three additional

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