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Owensboro Distillery Now Part Of Kentucky Bourbon Trail

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Owensboro is now a part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. O.Z. Tyler has become the 11th distillery to join the prestigious organization.

Last year, an estimated one-point-two million people visited the 23 distilleries that are part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Craft Trail.

 

The Messenger-Inquirer reports O.Z. Tyler plans to increase their annual production capacity by 25-thousand barrels.

 

More than half of the whiskey made at the Owensboro distillery goes overseas.

 

An American white oak was planted at the distillery during a ceremony this week to commemorate O.Z. Tyler’s addition to the Bourbon Trail.  

 

Bourbon is an $8.5 billion industry in the state.

 

Becca Schimmel is a Becca Schimmel is a multimedia journalist with the Ohio Valley ReSource a collaborative of public radio stations in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio. She's based out of the WKU Public Radio newsroom in Bowling Green.
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