But Bourbon Community Roundtable number 103 will be Bourbon Pursuits 500th episode.

Wow.

The official 500, not including Whiskey Quickie, Is there this week in bourbon.

So that could be also live at the new downtown then, right?

We might not be open by then.

December.

You're just looking for a reason to get back here, and I love it.

This is Bourbon Pursuit, the official podcast of Bourbon, bringing to you the best in news, reviews, and interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen.

And I'm one of your hosts, Kenny Coleman.

Here we are. We're back again. It's Bourbon Community Roundtable number 98.

And in this one, Ryan and I, we just got off of Kentucky Bourbon Festival.

We're going into Bourbon and Beyond.

Bourbon and on the banks is coming up.

There's been Whiskey Riot.

There's been Whiskey X.

There's been the world of whiskeys.

And we want to ask ourselves, now that we've seen all this happening across all these

different whiskey festivals, is this indicating the health of bourbon?

It might be. For the past year, we've been talking about how sales has been down across the board at all the major distillers, but does

that mean that consumers are just spending it in different places? Coming off this past festival,

I saw more people purchasing bottles than I'd ever had before, and it really gives me hope

of where this

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