NEW LAW INVITES MICRO-DISTILLERIES
"Tennessee has a great spirits heritage, be it both legal and illegal," says distiller Darek Bell, who operates a small distillery in Bowling Green, Ky. Bell is planning to amend his federal distilling license to open shop in Tennessee. Bell's Corsair Artisan Distillery, which produces absinthe, vodka, rum and an award winning gin, wants to take advantage of a new law that will allow micro-distilleries in Tennessee. Bell say's he plans to add Kentucky Bourbon and a Tennessee whiskey to his lineup when his Nashville distillery opens. A law passed last month overturned Prohibition-era restrictions, which only allowed manufacture of distilled spirits in a few counties. Jack Daniels is produced in Moore County and George Dickel is produced in Coffee County. The move to micro-distilleries is following the move to microbrewies. (156 craft distillers nationwide up from just 20 seven years ago). You can bet that the crafters of the Tennessee law envisioned "craft distilleries" as a way to promote tourism, as California's and New York's wine country has done. The Volunteer State has wonderful cultural roots that the previous laws have suppressed. One can hardly wait for the rich histories and folklore of the state's past to be told on the bottle labels. In fact, a Sevierville, Tennessee group of entrepreneurs plans to expound " the area's mountain heritage " by producing an un-aged spirit to be marketed as Tennessee moonshine. MMMM MMMMMMM GOOD!
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