• Moonshine University adds classes, and a couple of celebrity students

    By Staff | Posted on November 12, 2013

    Fresh off an appearance on the Discovery Channel’s “Moonshiners,” Louisville’s own Moonshine University is adding a few more classes. Because making whiskey isn’t as simple as it looks, Distilled Spirits Epicenter, an international distilling center located in downtown, offers Moonshine University, where visitors study the methods used...

  • Forge Event: Lessons learned from thwarted startup ambitions

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on October 24, 2013

    Sometimes people learn more from failure than they do from success. Last night at the Distilled Spirits Epicenter around fifty members of the entrepreneurial community gathered to hear from three people who’ve learned a lot from thwarted startup ambitions. The Distilled Spirits Epicenter donated the...

  • Kentucky School of Art: Catalyst for change in the neighborhood and in education

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on October 23, 2013

    This Friday, Jason D’Mello brings his Idea Mornings to the Kentucky School of Art’s 849 Gallery, where KSA Founder and President Churchill Davenport will discuss the school’s role in and vision for the revitalization of the South Broadway neighborhood: “A Catalyst for Change: Kentucky School of...

  • More foodie TV for Louisville: Bizarre Foods’ Louisville edition to air Monday, Aug 12

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on August 9, 2013

    When it rains (foodie programs focusing on Louisville), it pours (foodie programs focusing on Louisville). This Sunday Louisville’s Chef Damaris Phillips will compete against two other chefs in the final round of The Next Food Network Star to win her own show on the...

  • Early registration for Moonshine U’s distiller course includes 5 nights at the Brown Hotel

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on August 7, 2013

      Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell talking to attendees. Does your workplace offer a tuition-reimbursement program? We’re not suggesting that you use it to take this course… but this sounds like a heck of a lot more fun than going to night school...

  • NYTimes: New Distilled Spirits Epicenter ensures Louisville's position as 'prime player in spirits world'

    By Staff | Posted on May 18, 2013

    Former Brown-Forman exec Dave Dafoe, who founded Flavorman all those years ago, has yet another hit on his hands. The New York Times has a post on Defoe’s relatively new Distilled Spirits Epicenter and its Moonshine University. IL writes about DSE about every other...

  • Get your Master’s in Bourbon with New2Lou and Moonshine University

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on May 17, 2013

    New2Lou is wrapping up their Bourbon education series with Bourbon 103 on May 24 at Moonshine University at the Distilled Spirits Epicenter – 801 S. Eighth Street. Even if you’ve missed Bourbon 101 and 102, you’re invited to attend this interactive class. Hawthorn Beverage Group, spirits...

  • Distilled Spirits Epicenter's Saturday class to teach nuances of bourbon and cocktail applications

    By Steve Coomes | Posted on March 5, 2013

    Nearly everyone who’s tasted bourbon either likes it or they don’t. Typically much of that dislike was born of youthful indiscretion and over consumption of low-budget popskull. Fans likely enjoyed it from the start, even if gulped from shot glasses at a fraternity party....

  • Inside Flavorman and the Distilled Spirits Epicenter

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on November 12, 2012

    Let’s say you’re out drinking with friends one night. Let’s say you get tipsy enough to be clumsy. Let’s say that, like the old Resee’s Peanut Butter Cups commercials, you bump into a friend who is holding a peanut butter martini and slosh some...

  • Spirits of Prohibition at the Distilled Spirits Epicenter for Repeal Day

    By Melissa Chipman | Posted on October 24, 2012

    “Spirits of Prohibition” sounds like the coolest ghost tour ever. Gangsters, flappers, Tommy guns (invented by a Kentuckian, by the way), Steve Buscemi. Instead, this Dec. 5, the Distilled Spirits Epicenter (DSE) is hosting a “Spirits of Prohibition” class in honor of Repeal Day ....