A Murder of Crows and a Mint of Juleps: How Kentucky Shaped America’s Most Colorful Collective Nouns
Standing in a Bardstown distillery, watching tourists gather around gleaming copper stills, master distiller Emma Chen poses an unexpected question: “What do you call a group of bourbon makers?” The tourists guess—a batch? A barrel? A blend? Chen smiles. “Around here, we say ‘a board of bourbon makers.’ Started as a joke about how serious … Read more