Alcohol on TV; Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled

Last night, there was nothing worth watching on most of the channels (after BBT). Thankfully, WEIU had a show on that was entertaining.

Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled

Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled explores how distilling originated in Kentucky with it's first settlers in 1775, and takes the viewer to the sites of Central Kentucky's earliest distilling operations. Magnificent portraits and landscapes adorn the production.

Original documents relating to Kentucky's earliest distillers, and pages from Kentucky's earliest newspapers, such as the Lexington Kentucky Gazette and the Paris Western Citizen document on the screen the progression of whiskey-making to the stage where the best of it was old, smooth, amber in color and known as "Bourbon".

If you are interested in Bourbon, and how whiskey in Kentucky got to be called Bourbon, then this is a pretty interesting show.

I'm not sure when it will be on again, but if you see it in your listings, it'd be worth watching. The $19.95 price is pretty high for a DVD, especially since it's only an hour. But it's sponsored by viewers like you.

It's a PBS show, and I don't see it being listed again on WEIU, so keep looking for it on the various PBS stations that are in your area.