TWiB: Grim financial outlook for Uncle Nearest, The Kentucky Bourbon Trail adds 10 new stops, Brown Forman's new King of Kentucky Small Batch

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's This Week in Bourbon for February 6th 2026. The court-appointed receiver for Uncle Nearest, presents a grim financial outlook for the whiskey brand, The Kentucky Bourbon Trail adds 10 new stops, and Brown Forman is releasing King of Kentucky Small Batch.Show Notes: Uncle Nearest faces insolvency with $164M debt and revenue shortfall ABC Fine Wine & Spirits enters Colorado with Applejack acquisition Kentucky Bourbon Trail expands to record 68 stops statewide Barrell Craft Spirits consolidates blending operations to original Gilmore facility Supreme Court weighs legality of out-of-state alcohol shipping bans Kentucky Bourbon industry economic impact surges to $10.6 billion Jim Beam taps Kenan Thompson for 2026 "Refresh Your Season" campaign Yellowstone Bourbon partners with Vital Ground Foundation for grizzly conservation King of Kentucky announces 250th Anniversary Small Batch three-part series Shortbarrel launches Four Grain Straight Bourbon flagship for nationwide distribution Buzzard’s Roost unveils 5-year-old Four Grain Double Oak Bourbon Chattanooga Whiskey debuts Irish-style Batch 047: Single Pot Still Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's this week in bourbon and the writing's on the wall.
0:12.4	And here's our headlines for January 23rd, 2026.
0:16.0	The court-appointed receiver for Uncle Nearest presents a grim financial outlook for the whiskey brand.
0:21.4	The Kentucky bourbon trail is now adding 10 new stops, and Brown Foreman is releasing King of Kentucky Smallbatch.
0:29.3	Before we get started, here's a quick word from our partners.
0:45.8	Okay. Everybody, welcome back to this week in Bourbon.
0:50.0	It kind of felt like the opening there was almost like our first headline, wasn't it?
0:51.9	I know. The writing was always been on the wall.
0:53.3	It kind of has been.
0:56.0	So educate us. Where'd that come from? This is, I mean, I think you can preach this.
0:58.0	You're a Christian man yourself.
1:01.0	This actually comes from the Bible a little bit.
1:03.0	So it says, in the book of Daniel from the Bible, during a feast, mysterious writing appeared on the wall,
1:10.0	signaling the downfall of the King Belchazar's
1:12.9	kingdom, and this led to the popular phrase, the writing on the wall, which we used today as there's
1:17.8	a sign that something bad is going to happen. You probably just chose that for this week, or was it
1:23.7	just randomly lined up. It actually just happened to be. I've got a whole list, and it was just happened to be the next one in the list. Nice. Well, I'm sure there's a lot of these that come from biblical terms or slang. There probably is. Yeah. All that old door and, yeah, old scribes and all that. Because that was like the early, like, you know, earliest written documents. So there's probably a ton of the sayings coming from there.
2:02.2	I'm sure there's, there's got to be something all, all bury in there. But yeah, I mean, this is a, I don't know about you, my shoulders are hurting. We've been bottling all morning. My shoulders, my knees, my, no, I'm kidding. My elbows, a little bit, it's been knowing you're getting old, right? you can't keep up with your basketball, can't keep up with bottling line.
2:02.8	I know.
2:04.2	We're in full swing of things.
2:01.0	It is. My elbows. A little bit. It's been doing when you're getting old, right? You can't keep up with your basketball.
2:02.2	It can't keep up a bottling line.
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