by Chris Lusk | May 6, 2021
Joseph Elmo Beam, master distiller at Maker’s Mark, passes away at the age of 59.
by Chris Lusk | May 4, 2021
Dying the same year as his father Taylor William Samuels, William Isaac Samuels passes away at the age of 52 in Kentucky.
by Chris Lusk | May 4, 2021
Taylor William Samuels, great-grandfather to Bill Samuels, Sr., founder of Maker’s Mark, passes away in Bardstown, KY at the age of 77.
by Chris Lusk | May 4, 2021
William “The Judge” Harrison McBrayer, founder of the Cedar Brook Distillery, dies at the age of 67. The distillery passes to his three grandchildren: Mary, Wallace, and William Moore. In 1894, the “W.H. McBrayer Cedar Brook Distillery” brand...
by Chris Lusk | May 1, 2021
George Garvin Brown, founder of the Brown-Forman Company, passed away in Louisville, KY at the age of 70.
