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Drew Hannush

Aug 12, 2026

9:53
Want to tell the folks what that's about?
9:55
Yeah, so I did this crazy thing about four years ago, writing The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey.
10:02
And while writing The Lost History of Tennessee Whiskey, I started having opinions about bourbon and I was trying to figure out how to talk about it.
10:13
From a historical standpoint, from apples to apples, the 1820s, 1830s, 1840s.
10:19
And I started to realize that there really isn't a lot written about that time period in Bourbon's history.
10:26
It kind of gets bounced over and then everything comes after the Civil War.
10:30
So... uh i had just done the research for the chicken cock brand and i knew that that came out of paris kentucky bourbon county and was interested to find that there were more distilling names in that county than i anticipated there would be because the the myth has been kind of built up that there was this big county called bourbon county it was a fifth of the state and And that people so, you know, had a connection in all the counties that got carved out of it that they kept calling things.

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41:13
Before we go, Drew, I mean, is there anything else that's coming up on your show that our listeners that listen to you as well should be...

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