BOURBON AND KENTUCKY: A HISTORY DISTILLED 

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Thanks for watching and commenting!! Fascinating family history. You are rightfully proud of Kentucky and your family's history.

That’s pretty cool dude

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You sound like a Kentuckian

Thanks, you might enjoy the Daniel Boone film as well! Have a great day!

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Thanks for watching and commenting! Fascinating story. Hope you get to restore the Ritchie home.

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Exactly! For more information on this topic, watch "Bourbon and Kentucky: A History Distilled," also on the WHEF channel.

Per another of these “Witnessing History” videos covering Daniel Boone, Boone himself called for the development of “fine horse flesh” as a cornerstone of industry within Kentucky in an early caucus of leaders

Well that’s a good story but Thoroughbred horses have an Arabian bloodline via English aristocratic breeding stock. They weren’t just sitting around in New Orleans waiting for some cracker to buy

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Only partially responsible. My ancestors were thoroughbred horse breeders going back to when they lived in England. They were an offshoot of the english royal family. During the revolutionary war they were some of the senior cavalry officers for the continental army. After the war they settled in Kentucky and founded some of the original horse breeding farms. Aristedes, the first winner of the derby was sired by their stud, whom sired 19 other winning racehorses at Bosque Bonita (modern day lanes end). The Kentucky Horse park is also is their former family estate. So they benefited from both the influx of horses from whiskey, as well as some of the thoroughbred horse lineage (and knowledge) the English royal family had been cultivating for centuries. During the Civil war almost all of them became cavalry generals, some for the confederacy, others for the Union, like General John Buford.

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While we understand our current state of affairs life moments have things that our part of life itself, and it’s woven in many ways to our heritage as Americans in Ways not so commonly understood. Cheers Mate~ I’ve always like D, I wanted to put. Towing on the Accent but I’m 💯 AMERICAN 🇺🇸 MADE & PROUD to be an American.

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Thanks for watching and commenting! We here at WHEF are fascinated with early Kentucky history, too!

@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 you have a great channel. I'm looking forward to watching lots more.

@@meilnartin9109 We think you’ll enjoy our films on Daniel Boone and the frontier story of Abraham Lincoln’s family in Kentucky.

@@meilnartin9109 there’s another guy on here saying that he’s a 5th generation grandson of Elijah Craig as well. Are you related?

Glad you are enjoying it! We raise a glass of Woodford to you!

I'm having some Buffalo Trace as I watch.

Thank you too!

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Thanks for watching. Bourbon is now known worldwide as a fine spirit. Kentucky has a lot to be proud of!

I agree. I am from the Philippines where most people know only Johnny Walker or Jack Daniels. For me, it's bourbon over scotch and (so sorry) tennessee whiskey.

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Ya! Thats right what you said.you should watch stuff on Albert Fish. Sometimes the guys, along the with Onslo, my handler, take me on w ride around town. I can't fit in the car door, so they strap me to the trunk door w the ratcheting straps. Just love riding around at night, feeling the wind on my naked body as the guys shoot and throw fireworks out the windows at the other cars.

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That's exactly right! Now you know. Thanks for watching and commenting!

I get in this argument every Thanksgiving...it's the Water folks...

@@gregdake7788 Thanks for watching and commenting! Indeed, the limestone and other minerals in the water here in Kentucky lend bourbon its unique qualities!

@@gregdake7788 Sorry to disagree !its the Corn mate ? that`s why it is so sweet !not like Scotch Whisky from Scotland !

@@cosmictywlite Valid point!! I just had my first Jim Beam Red Stag bottle yesterday with a Coke on ice... It was definitely different tasting..What's is going on there? Any insight is appreciated...Thx

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Whiskey by the small is whiskey by the glass. You had to be licensed to operate a bar. James Garrard was a legitimate distiller, but not a licensed bar owner. I hope that helps.

Whiskey by the glass-- only licensed bar owners could sell whiskey by the glass.

We hear you! Have a glass this weekend!

Time for WHEF to produce a new film on Bourbon! Baker Bird has a great and distinguished history which we would love to feature, as one of Kentucky's oldest distilleries. Augusta has a great Civil War history, too. Thanks for commenting!

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WHEF staff certainly consider it among the very best bourbons!

Thanks for watching! It's good to know your family history, and the Calks are a great family.

Love my Kentucky Blood Line

@green rushrelief I spent most of my childhood in the wonderful land of Kentucky. No matter where I've gone since then my heart has always been in Kentucky.

@green rushrelief Well it's better to have people who make documentaries like this than to not even care about the history at all, thereby helping promote ignorance and apathy about our country's history. What do you prefer? The same applies to anywhere else in this country, or world.

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As you say! Thanks for watching and commenting!

That's a very solid bourbon right there. 👍

All due respect....Bourbon is Bourbon....Scotch is Scotch....The Indy 500 is The Indy 500...The Scotland Formula 1 is The Scotland Formula 1.....What..?

Should be