Behind The Pursuit: The History of Mellwood

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe to Behind The Pursuit: From Bourbon to Brand Our Pursuit Spirits Distillery here on Mellwood Ave sits on hallowed ground, being the original site of the Mellwood Distillery, and later, General Distillers Corporation of Kentucky. The Mellwood Distillery has a rich history dating back to 1865, and with the help of several folks in the industry, we've learned a bit about it and it's various ownership changes over the years. It produced brands like Mellwood Whisky, Kentucky Nectar, Derby Town, and Old Rampart, just to name a few. In today's episode, Kenny discusses the architecture, operations, and historical significance of the distillery, highlighting the importance of preserving and sharing bourbon history as we bring whiskey back to Mellwood Ave. We hit on: The origin of our site at 1700 Mellwood Ave Uncovering the history, maps, & research Mellwood Distillery and it's various labels Preserving and sharing the bourbon history and much more. Be sure to visit pursuitspirits.com and click on Visit Us to book a tasting or barrel selection experience. For questions or topic requests on upcoming episodes, email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Kinney here, and it's now my fault. I'm on vacation, and I just said, well,
0:06.1	let's throw up another great episode of Behind the Pursuit from Bourbon and Brand on our other
0:10.8	podcast. And so this one, it's a little bit focused on us, but the interesting thing about this
0:16.4	is that when we got our distillery, we had no idea the history that we were sitting on.
0:22.9	So Pursuit Spirits, the ground right here on Melwood Avenue, was actually the home of Melwood
0:28.8	Distillery, which was DSP KY-34. And thank you to a fan of the show, Chris Haynes, who
0:35.5	really kind of sent me down the rabbit hole of trying to
0:38.2	discover and find more information and the history that has really been untold for so long.
0:43.8	And I'm excited to be able to put a lot of this together.
0:46.7	And so you can understand more about the history of Melwood Distillery and the impact that it had on the whiskey industry.
0:52.7	So if you like this show, make sure you go
0:54.8	and subscribe to Behind the Pursuit, wherever you get your podcast. And if you want to see the cool
1:00.0	labels that we actually have here in the distillery, make sure you come see us at Pursuit Spirits
1:05.6	at 1700 Melwood Avenue. Well, cheers everybody. We'll see you next week.
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