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Will Jim Beam distill next year in Clermont? The latest on Kentucky's bourbon giant
Major Kentucky distillery Jim Beam, which stunned the world in December 2025 b y closing its Clermont distillery for a year , plans to keep it offline at least through 2027. “We’re going to continue to have distillation paused at our Clermont distillery,” said Suntory president and CEO Greg Hughes in an interview with the Herald-Leader. “But Clermont remains a very active part of our Kentucky operations.” The campus, which has been the bourbon brand’s home just outside of Bardstown for 90 years, continues to operate tours and visitor experiences as well as bottling, aging, warehousing and other daily activities. But the bulk of distilling shifted to the larger industrial Booker Noe distillery in Boston. Hughes said that after a $400 million expansion there a few years ago that increased distilling capacity by 50%, Beam was able to meet current distilling demands there while making improvements at the Clermont site. They’d originally planned to reopen sooner and still will someday. “We’ll move back at some point to distilling at Clermont,” he said. “If demand accelerates dramatically, we have the flexibility to go back into production at Clermont. Obviously, we need to get the infrastructure improvements made, which will take us
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Northern Kentucky home sales decline in October as prices and inventory rise
FLORENCE, Ky. — Northern Kentucky’s housing market saw fewer home sales in October, even as prices and available inventory continued to climb, according to the Northern Kentucky Association of REALTORS and the Northern Kentucky Multiple Listing Service. Closed sales fell 14.8% to 473 in October, compared with 555...
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Outer space comes to Kentucky: Inaugural summit gathers leaders in space sector
(The Center Square) – Industry leaders are pursuing economic growth in the space science and exploration sector with the first Kentucky Space Summit in Lexington today. The daylong conference will bring together researchers, policymakers and business leaders wanting to expand Kentucky’s involvement in space ventures, as well as increase the global visibility of Kentucky’s current contributions. “This inaugural Kentucky Space Summit is designed to bring creative interdisciplinary thinkers together from within and outside of Kentucky to begin crafting an ambitious framework for a 5-10 year space strategy,” said Humanity in Deep Space Founder Kris Kimel. The summit is hosted by Kentucky Space Futures, a collaborative initiative between the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Humanity in Deep Space, and Kentucky Science and Technology Corp. Kentucky is home to aerospace manufacturing, metals, plastics, and rubber fabrication, and chemical works, all of which currently contribute to space enterprises. Growing investment in space exploration offers a large economic opportunity to the state, officials say. “All aspects of the global space sector are rapidly expanding particularly with the return of humans to the moon,” Kimel told The Center Square. “This sector is expected to grow to over $1.6 trillion by 2035. Kentucky already has a