• Ale-8-One

    Ale-8-One will spill its secret formula on Saturday in celebration of its 93rd birthday

    By Sara Havens | Posted on July 11, 2019

    Ale-8-One, the Kentucky-made ginger ale that tastes great on its own or mixed with bourbon, is celebrating 93 years as a family-owned company, and it’s throwing a big bash Saturday, July 13, at the Frazier History Museum. Part of the festivities will include a...

  • Local bars and restaurants raise a toast to Ale-8-One, which turns 90 this year

    By Sara Havens | Posted on August 31, 2016

    Ninety years ago, Kentuckian G.L. Wainscott tinkered with several ginger-based recipes until he settled on his favorite carbonated soft drink formula. On July 13, 1926, Ale-8-One was launched into the market, putting Wainscott and his town of Winchester, Ky., on the map for producing...

  • Ale-8-One: Entrepreneurial lessons from a century-old company

    By Boris Ladwig | Posted on December 2, 2015

    Ellen McGeeney knew she had landed in a different kind of company when her boss at family-owned soft drink maker Ale-8-One told her to generate a 50-year plan. She said Fielding A. Rogers, the great great nephew of founder G. L. Wainscott, also told...

  • Ale-8-One CEO Ellen McGeeney to keynote the next Venture Connectors Luncheon

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on November 12, 2015

    The CEO of the company that makes the only soft drink invented in Kentucky still being sold will give the keynote at the Wednesday, Dec. 2, Venture Connectors Luncheon. Ellen McGeeney joined Ale-8-One in September 2013 as the first person outside the founding family to run day-to-day operations....