🎙️ Ep. 142 - HARTFIELD & CO DISTILLERY: Bringing Bourbon Back to Bourbon County

GUEST: Jeremy Buchanan (Owner & Distiller, Hartfield & Co.)

What does it mean to make Bourbon in Bourbon County? For Jeremy Buchanan, it means more than putting whiskey in a bottle, it means reconnecting with a forgotten distilling tradition that helped give Bourbon its name. In this episode, Drew Hannush sits down with the owner of Hartfield & Co. Distillery to explore the county's lost whiskey legacy, the philosophy behind Hartfield's pre-Prohibition approach to distilling, and why local grain may be just as important as the limestone beneath it.

In This Episode

• Bringing bourbon back to Bourbon County
• Why the county forgot its own whiskey history
• The story behind Hartfield's "pre-Prohibition" bourbon
• Does grain matter more than the barrel?
• Sourcing every grain close to home
• Why six-gallon barrels became an advantage
• Rethinking modern distilling techniques
• Gravity-fed whiskey making in a historic building
• How small distilleries preserve big ideas
• Reclaiming Bourbon County's forgotten legacy

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