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Article: MAKER'S TURNS 50.(Business)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2004
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Byline: Bruce Schreiner Associated Press
LORETTO, Ky. -- The family's business prospects seemed dim when Bill Samuels Sr. filled a ceremonial barrel with the first batch of bourbon crafted from a new recipe.
To signify the new beginning, the sixth generation bourbon maker torched the family's 170-year-old bourbon recipe -- essentially the one used to quench the thirst of George Washington's revolutionary army.
The ceremony produced some unintended pyrotechnics. The fire, which Samuels set in a long-neck bucket, sparked an explosion that burned a hole in the ceiling and singed his daughter's hair.
It was under such inauspicious ...
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