In 1783, Evan Williams opened the first commercial bourbon distillery in Kentucky.
It would take 237 years more for the first Black-owned distillery to enter the market in the state famous for its own bourbon trail.
Brough Brothers, in Louisville, has been on a breakneck pace of distillation and expansion since the Kentucky Alcoholic Beverage Control Board approved the distillery in 2020. Brough Brothers released its first bourbon earlier this year from sourced bourbon and hope to release its own distillate in 2023.
“We’ve got quite a bit of momentum, quite a bit of support from the community, from the retailers and the district distributors,” Victor Yarbrough, the CEO of Brough Brothers, told theGrio. Read more at www.thegrio.com
