TWiB: Buffalo Trace new online system, Uncle Nearest hiding a $20M loan, Maker’s Mark launches its Wood Finishing Series

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's This Week in Bourbon for March 13th 2026. Buffalo Trace Tried doing a new online bottle release system, Uncle Nearest is back in the news with hiding a $20M loan, and Maker’s Mark launches its Wood Finishing Series: The Stewards Release.Show Notes: Five Southern Glazer’s executives indicted for eight-year bribery and shelf-placement scheme Farm Credit Mid-America alleges Uncle Nearest funneled $20M loan to hide assets Sazerac takes control of Garrard County Distilling Co. after purchasing $26M debt Give 270 receives $11,350 grant from Karis Management Group for community support National Bourbon Week returns to Bardstown June 14–21 with 10 partner distilleries Milam & Greene launches Bluebonnet Bourbon benefiting Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center New Riff debuts 2026 Silver Grove series featuring six-year Bourbon and Rye Kentucky Senator honors Jim Bunning with seventh small batch release aged 8.5 years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's this week in bourbon, and if you collect bourbon long enough, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg.
0:14.6	And here's your headlines for March 13, 26.
0:18.7	Belfo Trace has tried doing a new online bottle release system.
0:22.9	Uncle Nearest, they're back in the news after covering up a $20 million loan,
0:27.7	and Maker's Mark has launched its wood finishing series, The Stewards Release.
0:32.1	Before we get started, here's a quick word from our partners.
0:46.1	Thank you. word from our partners. Everybody, welcome back to Burbank Pursuit, the official podcast of Burbank.
0:50.2	I'm Kenny Coleman.
0:51.1	Ron Cecil here.
0:52.3	And we're going to go through some news.
0:53.6	But before we do that,
0:54.7	we have a few things to talk about. First, you know, obviously, you've heard the phrase, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg, right? I totally have, yes. And you tell my wife that all time, that she cost an arm and a leg? Yes. I was what I was waiting to say. Where is this one going to go here?
1:15.8	So during the Victorian era, portrait paintings were still actually a very popular thing,
1:21.8	especially amongst the extremely wealthy, but the working class people would often have to save their money to get one.
1:25.1	But it was cheaper to be drawn from just the shoulders up.
1:45.7	And the more limbs that you want to be painted, well, the more the artist would charge you. So requesting that your arms and legs be drawn, well, it would quite literally cost you an arm and a leg. Oh, so you knew you were rich if you had an arm or a leg in the painting. Yeah. Isn't that kind of funny, though, because it's like you go back and you look at the historical Victorian era kind of paintings.
1:48.4	You're going to go see the Louvre here very soon.
2:02.0	You're going to go back and you're going to start looking at those. And now you're going to have some little. Oh, that one, that guy had a lot of money. Yeah. That one, not so much. It's like comparing a, well, that's bad, being like, oh, that's a Mercedes and that's like a Pinto or something.
2:02.8	I don't know.
2:03.9	At least you said Pinto.
2:04.2	Yeah.
2:02.1	But. It's like comparing a, well, that's bad, being like, oh, that's a Mercedes and that's like a Pinto or something.
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