Kentucky Bourbon House!

Kentucky Bourbon House!

Kentucky Bourbon House!

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Bourbon is an original American whiskey that evolved after the Revolutionary War. While other distillers in the eastern U.S. were using traditional rye, the Kentucky area was beginning to see its first settlers and only had leftover native corn to ferment into alcohol. Since land was freshly deforested for crops, stumps still remained, making it impossible to plant row crops requiring a plow. Early Kentuckians were forced to hand plant seeds around these tree stumps in order to produce a crop.

When first settled in 1775, Kentucky was still part of Virginia. To encourage settlement in its Kentucky County, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson offered pioneers 60 acres of land if they would build a permanent structure and raise "native corn." Kentucky had good land for raising grain and white oak trees that were preferable for crafting whiskey barrels. During the Revolutionary War, the French helped fight the British and, in recognition of their support, French names were given to new settlements or counties. The newly named Bourbon County had the most distillers, therefore the whiskey was named Bourbon.

Whiskey was also an important medicine in the 1800s. George Garvin Brown was a pharmaceutical salesman in 1870 and heard many complaints from doctors that the quality of whiskey was unreliable. Sensing an opportunity, George joined his half-brother’s whiskey firm to find a way to make the quality of medicinal bourbon consistent. This was the beginning of the production of the best Bourbon available, starting out as Old Forester, the first to be sold in glass bottles. The guarantee of high quality of the product established a reputation for the company which it has maintained through generations of whiskey fans.

For sale for the first time since it was built,The Avish, the original Brown family manor, is named after the family’s ancestral home in Ireland and was built in 1925 for the grandfather, Owsley Brown. It sits on 24 acres and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. After twentieth-century additions, the mansion now measures more than 17,695 square feet with six bedrooms and eight bathrooms. The estate also contains a barn, garden house, greenhouses, and a two bedroom guest house. The Avish is surrounded by several other estates owned by Brown family members.

The estate that Bourbon built is now offered for the first time at $5.5 million.

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