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Joyce Nethery

Joyce Nethery

Co-founder, CEO, and Master Distiller of Jeptha Creed Distillery in Shelbyville, Kentucky, which she runs with her daughter Autumn.

Sep 24, 2026

JonathanHOST
5:01
But how has it been working with the reds, the blues, the greens, the whites and seeing how they change things and do things differently?
5:11
Well, the heirloom varietals, they grow different than the GMOs and the other yellows that you see.
5:19
When you go through, you know, driving around the countryside and you see a field of corn and all of the ears are nice and uniform on the stalk, they're all in the same location.
5:30
The stalks themselves are all the same height.
5:33
All of the leaves are going up nice and neat and, you know, kind of going upright.
5:38
And then the tassels are... kind of on the small side, that's telling you that might be a GMO corn.
5:47
Whereas the heirlooms are GMO.
JonathanHOST
7:11
How did the idea for the Solero aged bourbon come about?
12:52
Uh, where did the name come from originally?
12:55
Well, our home farm where we still live is at the, we call it, I call it the foothills of some hills.
13:02
But when I was out in Colorado, it's like kind of silly for me to say that because they've got actual mountains, and the top of the knobs is a, like, um, you know, 1,200 feet.
13:14
So there, it's ...
13:15
Anyway, I call it the foothills of those hills is where our home farm is.
13:20
And those hills, those Jeptha knobs were named by Squire Boone and Daniel Boone when they came in and explored Kentucky in the late 1700s.
13:30
Um, they were attracted to those hills because there was a salt lick up there, so that's where the buffalo and the deer and the turkey were.

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26:31
I think she do.

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