Bourbon County
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Oct 30, 2026
DocHOST
This is the first distillery.
DocHOST
to legally operate bourbon in Bourbon County since prohibition shut down everything in 1919.
DocHOST
They do an annual release in October called Franken Whiskey.
DocHOST
It's not a gimmick.
HoustonAUDIENCE
Just outside of Lexington.
HoustonAUDIENCE
Actually, I'm in Bourbon County, so we're from.
Charlie BerensHOST
Okay.
Charlie BerensHOST
Lexington, a lot of white fences down there in Lexington.
Wes CrouchHOST
Soph?
Sophie FouchGUEST
My favorite memory is also from a Christmas tournament, and it's when we were playing in Bourbon County's Christmas tournament, and we weren't playing the best, and our booster presidents that are actually my mom and Bailey's mom said that if we didn't win our last game, they were not going to take us to hibachi.
Jordan PerryGUEST
We won.
Sophie FouchGUEST
Yeah, we did win.
Jordan PerryGUEST
You
Wes CrouchHOST
played them at Boyd once, right? Played them
Jordan PerryGUEST
at Boyd and lost by two, I think, two or three, and then beat them probably eight or ten at Bourbon County.
Jordan PerryGUEST
Two really good games.
The Wonton DonHOST
Briefly, first, do you know why they call it bourbon?
Uncle ChapsHOST
It's from Bourbon County, Kentucky.
The Wonton DonHOST
Bourbon County.
The Wonton DonHOST
And
Uncle ChapsHOST
so when they started to ship down the different barrels from Kentucky into Louisiana on the Mississippi, they would have to place like where things were from, a stamp of where things were from.
Uncle ChapsHOST
And it was all coming out of Bourbon County.
Uncle ChapsHOST
So that's where the drink's name came from.
The Wonton DonHOST
And I was reading that they named it Bourbon County in honor of the Bourbon royal family in France.
Drew HannushHOST
It would be easy to conclude that Jacob Spears' move west was in anticipation of providing grain and whiskey for the soldiers.
Drew HannushHOST
After all, his purchase of land in Bourbon County occurred just months after the government made its commitment to Elliott and Williams.
Drew HannushHOST
But for all of the potential commercial motivations building up around him, it seems Jacob's move may have been less influenced by commerce and more by his recent marriage.
Drew HannushHOST
An odd entry in the record shows Jacob backtracking to Virginia in 1786 to marry Elizabeth Keller.
Drew HannushHOST
While that raises a real possibility that Jacob and Elizabeth were first cousins, Mary died young and Abraham remarried.
Drew HannushHOST
The records are unclear, but Abraham's second wife, Elizabeth Painter, is the more logical candidate as the mother of Jacob's bride.
Drew HannushHOST
Now it's through the Kellers that we find the strongest connection to Bourbon County.
Drew HannushHOST
Elizabeth's brother, John Keller, was among the original inhabitants of Hinkston Station in May 1776.
Gunner FloydGUEST
But they just have one loss? They have one loss, yeah, an 8-1.
Gunner FloydGUEST
And their last game will be against Bourbon County.
Gunner FloydGUEST
It was going to be against Caverna, but they rescheduled that to Bourbon County.
Gunner FloydGUEST
Is that a tough
Jack PattieHOST
team?
Christopher MatthewHOST
It is, actually.
Christopher MatthewHOST
Bourbon can only be made in Bourbon County, Kentucky with a certain mash bill.
Christopher MatthewHOST
Outside of Bourbon County, Kentucky, it's not actually bourbon.
Christopher MatthewHOST
That's just
Greg DeLaceyHOST
considered a whiskey, right?
Aram StreetHOST
Today we're here talking with Jeremy Buchanan, whose family was making whiskey in Kentucky back in the 1800s, and he didn't even know about it until after their company, Hartfield & Company, was up and running.
Aram StreetHOST
Now the Paris Distillery carries that name as the first in Bourbon County since Prohibition.
Aram StreetHOST
Jeremy, welcome to the studio.
Aram StreetHOST
How are you doing?
Aram StreetHOST
So it's kind of cool.
Aram StreetHOST
But yeah, I mean, just run us off, give us a riff on that and go from there.
Jeremy BuchananGUEST
The joke has always been, you know, Bourbon County is dry and Christian County is wet.
Jeremy BuchananGUEST
I can't I mean, that was true when I was growing up here in Bourbon County.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
Why would you do that? You need to go to Kentucky.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
And, Anyway, so I went to Kentucky and just fell in love with bourbon and Bourbon County.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
And I went back and forth, I don't know, eight times probably.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
And I went to most of the distilleries there, got this distilling school and really decided to go for it.
6 MINS LATER
Harley NorwoodGUEST
It's pretty cool.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
I think too, a big differentiator is our new, we put all of our whiskeys in new barrels.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
So new old barrels, kind of like the, you know, Bourbon County and Bourbon.
Marc ChristensenGUEST
And I think it makes a huge difference as well.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
Unfortunately, there is no clear answer.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
There is a county in Kentucky called Bourbon County.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
It's quite small.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
But back in the early days of the Republic, Bourbon County was very, very large.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
And some people think that that's where it got its name.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
Whiskey was being made there and it was stamped as being from Bourbon County.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
And then it would go down the rivers, down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where there was a big market.
Robert SimonsonGUEST
And so people got used to the idea of like, you know, I want some of that bourbon whiskey.
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