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       Barrel Strength Bourbon:The Explosive Growth of America’s Whiskey

      COPYRIGHT © 2017 by Carla Harris Carlton

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced in any fashion, print, facsimile, or electronic, or by any method yet to be developed, without express permission of the copyright holder.

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       CLERISY PRESS

      An imprint of AdventureKEEN

      2204 First Avenue S., Suite 102

      Birmingham, AL 35233

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Carlton, Carla Harris, 1966– author.

      Title: Barrel strength bourbon : the explosive growth of America’s whiskey /

      Carla Harris Carlton.

      Description: Birmingham, AL : Clerisy Press, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016041259 | ISBN 978-1-57860-575-0

      ISBN 978-1-57860-576-7 (eISBN)

      Subjects: LCSH: Bourbon whiskey—Kentucky—History.

      Classification: LCC TP605 .C28 2017 | DDC 663/.52—dc23

      LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2016041259

      Distributed by Publishers Group West

      Printed in China

      First edition, first printing

      Editor: Lady Vowell Smith

      Project editor: Ritchey Halphen

      Cover design: Travis Bryant

      Text design: Steve Sullivan

      Cartography: Scott McGrew

      Proofreader: Susan Roberts McWilliams

      Indexer: Ann Weik Cassar/Cassar Technical Services

      Cover photos: front, © The Len/Shutterstock; back, Brown-Forman Interior photos: as noted on page and as follows: pages 10–11, Brown-Forman; pages 26–27, Beam Suntory; pages 30–31 and pages 54–55, Kentucky Distillers’ Association; pages 82–83, Heaven Hill; pages 106–107, Kentucky Department of Travel; pages 150–151, Carla Carlton; pages 162–163, Heaven Hill

      DEDICATION

      For my mother, who has listened to far more of my stories than I will ever write, and my father, who never drank anything stronger than black coffee but was proud of me anyway.