The Bourbon Family Tree

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http://www.gq.com/life/food/201311/bourbon-whiskey-family-tree

Kentuckians like to tell you that 95 percent of the world's bourbon comes from their state. What they won't tell you is that pretty much every last drop of that bourbon comes from a handful of conglomerate distilleries. In this chart—excerpted from The Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining, on shelves now—the guys behind Brooklyn's oldest craft distillery parse out, once and for all, the complicated kissing cousins of the bluegrass state's bourbon industry.

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The Tree is going to change:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140113/BIZ/301130049/1361/Maker-of-Jim-Beam--Maker-s-Mark-to-be-sold-to-Japan-s-Suntory-for-$13.62B

Beam, the maker of Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark alcohol brands, has agreed to be acquired by Japan’s Suntory Holdings Ltd. for approximately $13.62 billion.