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Yellowstone Bourbon Ad Circa 1948

Celebrating Throwback Thursday with this great outdoors themed ad from Yellowstone Bourbon from 1948.

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November Bourbon Wallpaper

This month’s bourbon wallpaper features a unique piece of equipment from the Willett Distillery. It’s a photo of a scale used to weigh barrels. When I first saw this during my visit to Willett Distillery I immediately knew was going to take some artistic shots of it for my collection.

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Halloween, Michael Myers & Bourbon

If you were to find yourself visited by Michael Myers this evening what bourbon would you serve him?

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Maker’s Mark Bourbon Ad for Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! I tried to locate a Halloween-themed vintage bourbon ad but came up short. This ad from Maker’s Mark bourbon is about as close as I could get to something creepy or Halloween-themed.

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Seagrams Whisky Ad Circa 1985

Bourbon & Banter reader Jim Thorpe sent me the Seagrams Whisky ad below and I just couldn’t pass it up. I know it’s not for a bourbon brand but how can you not love it?

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Bourbon & Beer: Beyond Boilermakers

If you’re a regular reader, you know that bourbon makes bad things bearable and good things great—even when those things are beer, and therefore already awesome.

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October Bourbon Wallpaper

A month or so ago I was exploring some ideas for a new bourbon wallpaper and I put together a bottle montage using a sketch technique when my wife walked in and mentioned how much she liked it. After a little bit of tweaking, I’m pleased to finally offer it up for everyone’s enjoyment and use. I hop

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Oh, What A Bourbon Heritage Month!

Where has the time gone? It’s seems like only yesterday that we kicked off Bourbon Heritage Month by launching our Bourbon Sweepstakes. It’s been an amazing 30 days filled with posts about the history of bourbon, bourbon education, cocktail recipes, giveaways and much more.

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Bartender Journey Podcast Interview

A week ago I was interviewed on the Bartender Journey Podcast and they were kind enough to allow me to embed the podcast for your listening pleasure.

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Celebrate National Coffee Day with Bourbon

It’s Sunday morning. It’s National Coffee Day. And it’s always a great day for Bourbon.  In 2009, I went on my first tour of the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. It provided all of the familiar smells of mash and oak, and the tour was fascinating as always.

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A Twitter Toast to #BOURBON

Today’s the day folks. The day we make history. The day we give #BOURBON it’s moment in the sun on Twitter.  That’s right folks. It’s #BOURBON go time. A few weeks ago we first posted about our desire to boost #BOURBON visibility online – most notably Twitter.

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Jim Beam Bourbon Ad Circa 1985

Today we’re featuring a Jim Beam Bourbon advertisement from Mechanix magazine back in May of 1985 courtesy of Bourbon & Banter reader Jim Thorpe. I don’t have much to say about this one other than while these folks were enjoying Jim Beam bourbon, I was graduating 8th grade.

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How George Remus Kept Prohibition From Killing Bourbon

In honor of Bourbon Heritage Month I thought I would take a moment and look back on one of the darkest periods of our drinking history, the ignoble experiment known as prohibition.

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Friday The 13th – Don’t Drink Alone

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A Primer For Bourbon Rookies

Unless you were born a prodigy that was a natural expert at everything, you’ve been a rookie at something before.  And, as bourbon gains popularity, more people are finding themselves wanting to try bourbon but aren’t sure where to start.

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#BOURBON: A Toast to America’s Native Spirit

We’d like to propose a toast. An epic toast. A toast that will spread the bourbon gospel far and wide and reach those who have yet to try bourbon and fall in love. That’s right folks. I’m proposing the world’s largest Twitter toast in celebration of National Bourbon Heritage Month. Are you with me?

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When It Comes To Bourbon, Never Assume

We’ve all heard the saying, “You know what happens when you assume….”; I doubt I need to complete that statement. I recently took my girlfriend out to dinner at a very nice restaurant. Not “black tie nice”, but not somewhere you’d feel comfortable wearing a muscle shirt and board shorts.

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September Bourbon Wallpaper

Since we’re celebrating National Bourbon Heritage Month in September we decided to create a special bourbon wallpaper featuring some of our favorite bourbons.

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Bourbon Heritage Month Celebration

Welcome to the most amazing month of the year – National Bourbon Heritage Month. I know many folks think that Bourbon Heritage Month is one of those made-up holidays like National French Fry Day or International Hula Hoop Day but it’s not.

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Meet The Bourbon & Banter Team

A little over 2 months ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Help Wanted: Seeking Bourbon Evangelists” and posted it here on Bourbon & Banter. I was looking for fellow bourbon lovers to help me write content for the blog and help spread the bourbon gospel over social media.

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Kentucky Tavern Bourbon Ad Circa 1950

For some people change doesn’t come easy. If you’re one of those folks I’d like to offer my apologies. As of today, we’re going to shift our schedule for posting vintage bourbon advertisements. Instead of posting them on Friday, we’re moving to Thursdays.

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All Bourbon, All The time

Do you know what’s special about September? September is National Bourbon Heritage Month. That’s right folks. An entire month dedicated to celebrating America’s “Native Spirit”.

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National Whiskey Sour Day 2013

Believe it or not some people require a good reason to have a drink on a Sunday. Today’s post is for those people. Tomorrow, Sunday, August 25th is National Whiskey Sour Day.

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Screw Calm. It’s Bourbon Drinking Time.

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Old Grand-Dad Bourbon Ad Circa 1936

It’s been a hell of a busy week for me at the day job. While this Old Grand-Dad bourbon ad might be celebrating a bygone era but I could get into taking a bourbon-fueled cruise right about now. Who’s with me?