Article: MAKER'S TURNS 50.(Business)

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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