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HE CHAMBER OF ST. MATTHEWS: ORGANIZATION HAS SERVED T BUSINESSES & COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS The Chamber of St. Matthews wasn’t always the powerhouse it is today. Its humble beginning as the St. Matthews Area Business Association was in 1955, with 80 members coming together. Now, 64 years later, it has grown to an established chamber, with more than a thousand members. The Chamber is now the second-largest chamber in Louisville and the fourth largest association in the region.

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THE CHAMBER OF ST. MATTHEWS Organization Has Served Businesses & Community For More Than 60 Years Writer / Erin Coffee Photographer / Alex Ruhs

says Elizabeth Cleary, Director of Chamber Operations.

“Each week is its own intense madness,” Cleary said.

The Chamber of St. Matthews wasn’t always the powerhouse it is today. Its humble beginning as the St. Matthews Area Business Association was in 1955, with 80 members coming together. Now, 64 years later, it has grown to an established chamber, with more than a thousand members. The Chamber is now the second-largest chamber in Louisville and the fourth largest association in the region.

One way this happens is through the annual Business Expo. The Business Expo, which was held in July, had more than 60 vendors that show people who they are and how they can help other businesses.

There are constantly moving parts at the chamber that Cleary, Suiter and Frarey oversee, with a variety of programs and services offered to its members. These range from new member orientation to networking events to wedding hospitality group meetings.

The Chamber seeks to empower local businesses and provide resources for the community. Most of the work behind the chamber is led by the staff with the support of volunteers to ensure events run smoothly and the staff works to provide important resources to chamber members.

Kristen Frarey joined the team recently as the Director of Programs. She adds necessary organization to the chamber by running the various programs offered as well as bookkeeping and assisting with whatever The St. Matthews Street Festival always challenges come her way. takes place in early August. There are live bands, food, vendors and activities.

Cleary and Suiter are thankful to have another person to share the load, since their For families, there is a free Kids Zone. jobs are hectic as is.

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“The chamber is for community and for businesses and they have to come together,”

Cleary and her counterpart, Josh Suiter, Director of Membership, work as a team and are dedicated to the advancement of the community.

In a given week, there are two to three events that need to be managed. On top of that, the trio prepares months in advance for their larger-scale events, which include the St. Matthews Street Festival, Halloween in Brown Park and Light Up St. Matthews.

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about the event on its website, stmatthewsstreetfestival.com.

The manpower behind the festival is made possible by St. Matthews Baptist Church, who provides volunteers and is one of the event’s many sponsors.

Additional festival volunteers help vendors unload, clean up, set up stages and whatever else is required to run the event.

Halloween in Brown Park started as a small event intended to provide a safe area for families to trick-or-treat but has since grown into an expansive event with bouncy castles, games, hayrides and a lot more trick-or-treating stations run by local businesses.

Light Up St. Matthews is an event that brings the most out of the Christmas season. Hot chocolate and cookies provide a tasty treat for everyone. A visit from Santa Claus adds to the excitement. There will be a live DJ to play everyone’s favorite Christmas songs and games for the whole family to enjoy. Activities range from ice skating to train rides for the kids and pictures with Santa.

At the end of the night, Santa and the St. Matthews mayor turn on all the lights in Brown Park.

“We put on these events for the community to give back to them for all the things they give to our businesses,” Cleary says.

These events are made possible through the generosity of The City of St. Matthews and chamber investors and members. Membership with the chamber is an easy process and comes with a lot of benefits. Simply fill out the application, pay yearly membership dues and receive access to countless opportunities.

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A new program that the team is excited about is Inspire, where local women empower other women by sharing challenges and obstacles they’ve overcome.

“Inspire is a program where we can have successful women share their story, both professionally and personally,” Suiter says.

Kelly Lepley, a transgender pilot, shared her story at one of the Inspire events. She underwent her transition process while working for UPS and they assisted her in completing her paperwork. This new stage in her life resulted in Lepley losing her home, marriage, retirement and church fellowship.

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“The conversations around the table were pretty incredible after Kelly’s [speech],” Suiter says.

Another previous speaker was Christy Jarboe, a multiple cancer survivor who, despite her diagnosis, continued to grow professionally.

Jarboe works at Louisville Forward as the Senior Economic Development Manager of Louisville Forward. health insurance plans that include vision and dental.

Other speakers include Laura Hardy, radio personality ‘Regular Laura’ of Louisville’s One of the members, Durbin Plumbing, 107.7 The Eagle and Tracy Reed, Vice has saved thousands of dollars through the President of Independence Bank, who health insurance benefit. has worked tirelessly to help sustain the business her family started. “[The health insurance] really does make a difference to business owners,” Suiter says.

The Chamber is also dedicated to the health and safety of its members. If a company The chamber has recently transitioned into a has between two and 250 employees, brand-new space at St. Matthews City Hall. they qualify to pursue a group health plan This newly renovated area is a chance for through Anthem. With the help of the St. further opportunities within the chamber.

Matthews Trade Association Insurance Trust, hundreds of companies have received The space is three times as large as before,

including a conference room for members to use and a place to rest and chat.

“We’ve made it collaborative, we’re doing technology upgrades for it,” Cleary says.

“Our membership has a great place to come and have the best things at their fingertips.”

This is the first time that the chamber has space that its members can come and use.

This marks a new era for the chamber as it opens its doors to the community.

For more information on The Chamber of St. Matthews, give them a call at 502-899-2523 or visit them online at stmatthewschamber.com.

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WW. Cousins has been a staple in the Louisville restaurant scene since it was founded by real-life cousins Crawford and Peyton Wells in 1983.

“We knew we wanted to build a restaurant somewhere in Louisville,” Crawford says. “The old Steak and Ale had become available as we were developing the concept, so we purchased it and converted it to WW. Cousins.”

Customers have stuck around as well over the 35 years WW. Cousins has been in business.

“You’d be surprised how many people tell me they’ve been coming here since the 1980s,” Johnson says. “I hear that a few times a week. We’ve built a great reputation, and I’m proud to be a part of that.”

All of the praise has led to several Best of

Louisville reader awards from Louisville Magazine, and WW. Cousins’ famous burger was even selected as Kentucky’s Best Hamburger by Food Network Magazine.

“Our burgers are by far our most popular item, and I don’t think you can get a better hamburger,” Johnson adds. “We use fresh Angus beef, never frozen. You can get it cooked however you like, and we provide quick service.”

At first, the restaurant was just known as The Cousin, but the duo changed the name to “WW. Cousins” shortly after opening, putting a more personal touch on the business.

Wells operated the restaurant until his retirement in 2015 when he sold WW. Cousins to Marty Johnson and Earl Smith.

Johnson had worked for a fast, casual chain of restaurants under the helm of Wells before buying that chain and operating as Nautical Restaurants. With nearly 40 years of restaurant experience under his belt, he was looking for a new opportunity.

“We had been trying to get Crawford to sell us WW. Cousins for a while, so we jumped on it when he was ready to retire,” Johnson says.

Despite the change in ownership, the restaurant has remained an employee-owned entity, with Johnson serving as president.

“We have a lot of long-term employees who have been at the restaurant for 10 to 20 years,” Johnson says. “We’re an employee owned company and the restaurant’s success goes right back to our employees.”

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Wells says. “We still use chuck meat, while other hamburger restaurants use different parts of the cow. You order your burger any way you like it cooked and top it with whatever toppings you’d like.”

On top of WW. Cousins’ already great prices, they offer free meals for kids on Monday and Tuesday nights with the purchase of an adult entree.

Conveniently located at 900 Dupont Road just off Breckenridge Lane, both Johnson and Wells agree the East End location has been one of the biggest keys to their success, aside from the food of course.

All menu items are made from scratch and cooked to order. WW. Cousins has always baked their own buns in-house fresh every day, using a recipe originally provided

by Plehn’s Bakery in St. Matthews that has evolved over time. They also bake an assortment of cookies and pies daily onsite for dessert.

member of your party,” Johnson says. “Or you can opt for a plain, juicy burger right off the grill.”

There are endless ways to customize their famous burgers, thanks to the forty-item toppings bar. Featuring an array of delicious sauces and condiments and various types of onions, pickles, lettuce, relish and more, the toppings bar is one of the things that has kept customers coming back all these years.

Whatever you order, you’re sure to come hungry and leave satisfied. WW. Cousins also has a nice selection of soft drinks, handdipped milkshakes and beer.

“We have a lot of really unique toppings and have something for even the pickiest

WW. Cousins also offers several seafood choices and chicken and even has a glutenfree bun option. If you’d prefer no bun they can serve your burger that way as well.

“It’s a great location, there’s no doubt,” Johnson says. “We end up getting a lot of customers from surrounding counties who are in town visiting one of the hospitals by us, and we also have a lot of locals.”

WW. Cousins is open for dine in or carry out Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. For more information, and to see a full menu, visit ilovecousins.com.

Restaurants come and go, but WW. Cousins has enjoyed great success at their East End location.

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Guests will also be able to take their samples that exists to enhance Frankfort Avenue as a place to do business. We work to inside APH and explore the building.” stimulate economic development along the business corridor while developing Returning this year is the popular Sip and Swig VIP tent for $100 which offers special and implementing marketing activities that promote and improve the business climate. amenities like reserved on-site parking, tastings, and samples from each restaurant FABA acts as a unifying force and an delivered to guests. advocate for solutions when issues emerge in the community and supports the work Restaurants that will be vying for the of the neighborhood associations and People’s Choice Award as well as Best charitable organizations. We work to make Appetizer, Entrée, and Dessert/Drink by a the Frankfort Avenue corridor a premier panel of judges. destination for Louisville shopping, dining, and entertainment. FABA helps keep The 2019 Taste of Frankfort Avenue is Frankfort Avenue looking its best through sponsored by Porcini and 106.9 Play.

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JAVANON FUTBOL CLUB CELEBRATES MORE THAN 25 YEARS Writer / Tyrel Kessinger Photographer / Alex Ruhs

For more than 25 years the Javanon Futbol Club has been the home for Louisville soccer excellence and has a rich history in developing both players and teams. Located in the Jeffersontown area, the club was founded

by Ali Ahmadi in 1989. Ahmadi, a former manager for the Louisville Thunder, the city’s pro team that operated here from 1984 to 1987, has since watched his organization grow with every passing year—the 20 players he started with after the club’s opening—to now boasting more than 350 players and 20 coaches throughout their program.

But for Ahmadi, the work that he does with Javanon doesn’t feel like work at all. Instead, he identifies it as his calling, his unique purpose in life. And, needless to say, it’s a role that Ahmadi takes very seriously.

“Javanon is a passion and way of life for me,” Ahmadi says. “I think God created me for this. I love children, and I truly like working with them. They’re our future, and I like having some sort of positive impact on their upbringing. I wake up every morning thinking about what I need to do to make my players better, and I go to bed every night thinking about what needs to be done tomorrow so they can do better. It’s AUGUST 2019

like family to me. Most of my coaches have grown in the program as players. Many have been with me since the beginning. So, we’re just like a big family.”

Javanon’s mission statement is simple: a development pathway which provides current and future soccer players with learning opportunities through soccer. To that end, the Javanon FC seeks to improve and foster the skills and talents of soccer players, especially younger students of the game.

“There is no reason why our community should not produce quality players,” Ahmadi says. “Children are all the same

everywhere you go. It’s just how one trains them and what kind of demands one has of them to reach excellence. In the process, never forgetting that it’s love that makes it all work. Fostering the development and growth of its players and coaches has always been of vast importance as the club has grown in membership. We operate our club to better serve the players and parents.”

And it’s this type of dedication that Ahmadi and the rest of Javanon FC have that makes the club so successful. The club’s notoriety is soaring and with no signs of slowing down.

“We have become one of the most recognizable youth soccer clubs in the United States,” Ahmadi adds. “College teams recruit from our program. Javanon has put Louisville on the map in the world of soccer. Throughout the United States, within the soccer community, the Javanon name is well known.”

This national recognition has also helped spur international attention as well, no small feat.

“Now Javanon is even competing internationally,” Ahmadi says. “We travel long distances to compete, and we expose our players to the best competition that this game has to offer. This past week we had a team in England competing, and last year we had a group of our girls competing there. The year before that, we had a group in Spain, through our contact with the F.C Barcelona program. We even have one of their former players working full time with our club for the past four years.”

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Ahmadi also touts other unique accomplishments of his program.

“Javanon FC is the only club in the history of Kentucky youth soccer that has won a national title twice,” he says. “They’ve been to the final four of the national competition multiple times.”

Ahmadi certainly believes that Javanon needs the support of Louisville as part of its success but he also believes that the city needs the club as well.

“Louisville needs Javanon because we produce the best of the best in almost all ages in this game locally,” he says. “Our impact in the community reaches far and wide. The University of Louisville soccer coach and Spalding University soccer coach played their entire youth career for Javanon.

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just yet, according to Ahmadi. He sees room for growth in his mission to assist the community.

“I have a dream to build another site for our players to train more comprehensively,” he says. “Today, we play and train in three different locations, which is inconvenient for our families with multiple children.

I’d like to remedy the situation, to make it convenient for them. Also, our players need more quality playing surfaces, so we have just reconstructed our field to high quality with Bermuda grass and irrigation.

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Javanon is ever-growing and invites any and all interested in playing soccer to look into their program. However, Ahmadi does encourage those interested to begin their program as early as possible.

“The earlier the better the chance of success,” he says. “We start our training at the age of five or six with Javanon Juniors.

This class meets every Friday evening for one hour. That is when our program is open to the public. Parents can bring their children to train with our coaches and get the opportunity to develop technical

fundamentals of the game. This is where our program begins.”

Ahmadi also suggests any inquisitive minds go to their website at javanon.org for more information.

Ahmadi again brings it all back home, to what both he and his organization is all about.

“Javanon’s mission is to produce quality players and productive members of society, both on and off the field,” he says. “That is what Javanon is all about — family. Family first. Our slogan is ‘love for all, all for love.’”

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Here are a few tips to help you have a stellar barbecue that will impress your friends and family this outdoor season.

1. READY THE FOOD

It’s fun to have friends over. And it’s even more fun to be able to enjoy time with those friends when they are there. Try to have almost everything done before they arrive, especially the food.

Main course items like hamburgers and hot dogs can be grilled while enjoying a drink and talking with friends outside, but prepare as much beforehand as possible to save your sanity.

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2. M AKE IT A POTLUCK

Another way to save yourself some time and peace of mind is to ask a few friends to bring side dishes. Not only will this save you time (and money) but it will also create a great array of offerings for all your friends. Those bringing dishes probably won’t make what you would normally make and it gives your party different options! This is nice to do for those who have food allergies and sensitivities too.

3. D ON’T FORGET THE DETAILS

We all know that we want some easy clean up at the end of a long, hot day.

But nothing makes your guests feel more special than the tiny details. Think about trying non-disposable plates and flatware instead. Look for melamine picnic dishes with liners - they are usually inexpensive and are sure to make your backyard barbecue stand out! Then take a quick minute to wrap silverware bundles in napkins. Add a handwritten tag with a fun summer song or the names of your guests. They are sure to love these small details and tell their other friends all about your party.

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Snacks are super important. Especially if you are going to be cooking the main course once the guests arrive. Make sure to have dips and finger foods so everyone can snack while they catch up.

Also, make sure to have foods that are great for being outside. Cut watermelon, fruits and veggies and chips and salsa are always crowd pleasers and don’t take a lot of effort.

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From the 1926 Buster Keaton film The General to the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, trains have long captured our collective imagination.

Trains revolutionized our country, played a role in the development of cities, and influenced the progress and outcome of wars. Whether you’re a long-time train enthusiast, a parent of children who love trains or simply curious about unique local shops, you’ll find something to pique your interest at Roundhouse Electric Trains on Brownsboro Road.

Since 2011, Kevin Cook has been the proprietor of Roundhouse, having bought it from former owner, Tom Budniak.

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Budniak recognized both a devout train lover and businessman in him. Casual conversations eventually led to more serious conversations, a bank loan, and a transfer of ownership. Although no longer the owner, Budniak remains a regular presence at Roundhouse.

the engine. His father couldn’t fix it, but this dilemma led Cook into tinkering which evolved into a lifetime fascination with and respect for all things train-related.

Cook has loved trains his entire life. In addition to having family on both sides who worked for the Pennsylvania railroads, his dad had a model train layout in the family’s basement. Cook’s two older brothers were none too gentle with it, leading his father to give it to cousins.

He learned to build and rebuild trains, and painted and decaled over 2,000 train cars, which helped him pay for expenses during college. He had hoped to work on the railroad himself after graduating from college with a degree in transportation, but his eyesight kept him from a job (he is legally blind in one eye). Despite having to forego a career in the railroads, Cook’s love for trains never abated.

“I watched that train layout go out the door, and I was totally crushed,” he says.

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at Atria in Louisville. When his position was eliminated, he purchased Roundhouse thinking it would tide him over until he found his next white-collar position. He hasn’t looked back and says, “The biggest benefit of owning a train store is my wife has stopped asking me what I want to be when I grow up.”

There are a number of facets of train enthusiasm: history, playing, and operating.

Playing with trains is what a person might do with a train under a Christmas tree, while operating is, according to Cook, “a representation of how the railroads functioned,” which involves multiple switches, picking up, and dropping off.

“I like understanding what the railroad has meant and being able to enjoy it in a pure form,” he says.

Roundhouse is open six days a week, and Cook is at the shop nearly every day. In addition to carrying a wide selection of trains and train components, the shop is also an authorized Lionel repair center. Even if you know nothing about trains, an hour or so with Cook or one of his employees can provide you some basic knowledge of the different types of gauges, including N, HO, G, and O. “I’m an HO guy,” Cook says. “I always lusted over Lionel, but it was beyond my budget.”

Being a collector himself, Cook tries to carry a wide variety of trains, both new and used, so that regardless of how much a customer has to spend, he or she can find something that fits the budget. While $500 for a Lionel 1225 Christmas engine painted by Angela Trotta Thomas might seem steep, when you witness it simulate exhaust smoke in time to the exhaust sound, you realize just how intricately designed and realistic these little collectibles are.

If Cook purchases a used collection, he and his staff put the items through an inspection process to ensure they are in good working order for future owners. In addition to its cavernous store, Roundhouse also has a garage which stores some of the less expensive used trains, cars and sets. While Cook tries to warranty everything he sells, some of the used items he purchases for resale don’t have available replacement parts anymore, so he has to sell them “as is.”

The shop also includes an upstairs area with one complete O gauge train layout and a HO gauge train layout in development. A member of K&I Railroad Club has been helping ballast the HO track and Cook says, “We have met with the K&I representatives and the superintendent of the Division 8 National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) to solicit their assistance in completing the HO

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layout. We hope to have completion by May/June.”

Communicating with other model train enthusiasts is part of the business model for Roundhouse. Through its Facebook page, the store serves as a communicator and connector. It announces local and regional train sales and shows and invites the public as well as members of the K&I Railroad Club and the Southern Indiana Railroad Club to share in the excitement when it is operating trains on its O layout.

Another service Roundhouse offers is train layout design. One such design was done for Louisville Slugger in 4x4 sections. Cook envisions helping assisted living facilities plan and install train layouts as a way to interest and involve residents. He built a train layout for his own father when he was a resident of a local retirement community and says, “He never wanted for company, and I got to thinking, ‘Why not have these down in activity rooms or in a front foyer and have that be a focal point for people to meet, greet, and just have a good time?’”

Cook recognizes that the hobby will not survive without kids and the interest they take in it.

“I think it’s the finest hobby out there,” he says. “You’re building your own little world, and I think it’s almost therapeutic. You’re building a world that you control.”

From his own experience, though, he knows that trains are more than just play. He would be the first one to tell you that playing with trains as a boy taught him elements of both mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as a certain amount of grit and determination.

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From creating healthy sleep habits and establishing a good morning routine to handling back-to-school anxiety and learning how to make communication more manageable, we’ve got 10 back to school tips and tricks for parents to help make this your best year yet!

You know that your child will reap the benefits of going to school. Try to keep any anxiety or stress you may have from showing to your child.

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This is a great practice for young kids starting preschool or Kindergarten. It is equally great for children entering a new school. Map out their classes and let them 1. MAKE A COUNTDOWN try out their locker. Park where they will Using a calendar, paper chain or whiteboard, park and walk in, making their first day of school more familiar. start a countdown a couple weeks before school. With this countdown ease into their school routine with bedtime, setting 4. MORNING ROUTINE out their clothes for the next day and when they'll be waking up. It'll be hard to stick Routine is the key word here. It may take a to those routines while wanting to get in few weeks or even months to figure out the as much fun as you can, but it will help the perfect routine for your family, but once transition immensely for you and your kids you've got it, stick with it. Write it out or if you start early.

discuss it with your kids to let them know how you'd like to see the morning go. Have them help you figure out what works best for them.

5. EVENING ROUTINE Although morning routines help with the ease into a new day, setting up an evening routine can make that morning routine breeze by. Again, see what works best for your family. Maybe make a chart or an evening routine clock that shows what things they need to accomplish before lights out. Do as much as you can the night before so the next morning is simple (set out clothes, make lunches, look at the week ahead etc.)

6. GO SCHOOL SHOPPING Head to the store for their favorite foods in their packed lunch. Purchase the necessary school supplies or even a new First Day

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outfit. Get haircuts. Having a day with them to prepare for the new year ahead will let your kids know you want to make this as easy and as fun as possible for them.

7. MAKE A DROP ZONE Talk to your child about homework rules and where they should put papers that need to be looked at or signed. Have enough space for each child’s backpack, shoes, water bottles or anything else they will be carrying home from school so there is no frustration in the morning to find these items. Make sure they know it’s their space and their responsibility to keep their items there.

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Author Brian Haara

LOCAL AUTHOR DETAILS HOW WHISKEY LAW SHAPED AMERICA IN NEW BOOK Writer / Tyrel Kessinger

hen Brian Haara decided to publish a book on bourbon history he didn’t want to release another run-of-the-mill account in a market long over-saturated with them. Instead of a generalized retelling, as so many of these types of books are, Haara wanted to cut straight to the factual nitty-gritty — to lay the down law, as it were, on the truth behind bourbon and its single-handed effect on American law. The engaging result was “Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America.”

“What I try to do in Bourbon Justice is explain how different types of law from bourbon cases in the past helped build

the law in that area,” Haara says. “One in particular, for example, is trademark law.

Trademark law is pretty well established today, but in the 1800s it wasn’t. It was really built through bourbon cases, people fighting each other over logos or brand names other distilleries would try and copy. Contracts is another one.”

What gives Haara his unique insight into this method of storytelling is two-fold. He’s a long time bourbon admirer and, more importantly, a lawyer who specializes in business litigation. He began practicing law in Louisville in 1996 after graduating from the University of Kentucky, but it wasn’t until nearly five years ago that he acquired his first client involved in the bourbon industry. This

client, a Millville, Kentucky-based distillery called Castle & Key, was being sued by the much larger Sazerac Company (proprietors of the Buffalo Trace brand) over possible trademark infringement.

“Two entrepreneurs who the bought the distillery property, which had essentially abandoned since the 70s but built in 1887,” he says. “The guy who built it was Colonel E. H. Taylor and the name of his distillery was Old Taylor Distillery, and the signs on the property still say Old Taylor carved into the limestone side of the castle [in which the still resided]. Old Taylor, of course, is a brand that still exists but it’s made by Sazerac at the Buffalo Trace distillery and they have a trademark on the Taylor brand.

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So, they sued Castle & Key because they wanted them to take down the signs that talked about the Old Taylor Brand. They thought it would create confusion.”

The end result was a win for Haara and Castle & Key who were able to maintain their rights to display the old signage.

Prepping for the case served as Haara’s proverbial lightbulb into how to compose his specific brand of whiskey history.

Through further examination of the legal history of bourbon, through the use of court documents and cases, a much larger and more important story of bourbon became apparent, one relying on lawfully established facts and less on oral accounts of the past, which, Haara admits, are inherently problematic. More than simply a rundown of bourbon’s long, and often harried, past, Haara’s research revealed how the industry has directly helped shaped and create legal precedents and laws of the American justice system that have major reverberations and

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repercussions today and into the future.

“The marketers have made their own stories today, but I was able to find facts from these cases that tell the true story,” Haara says.

“My theory is lawsuits are the best place to find out. Anything that made it into the case was something that passed the strict evidentiary process and found by a judge to be reliable.”

One problem, Haara says, is the gaps in recorded history, even from the bourbon companies themselves.

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“With the movement at the time, having a distillery in your family lineage was embarrassing to folks. So even the families big into distilleries before Prohibition don’t have a lot of documents to memorialize what had happened before Prohibition.”

Another area of the law the bourbon

industry helped mold, Haara says, is one that still has enormous ramifications for these modern times — consumer protection.

“Bourbon was responsible for the first law that would protect consumers from being

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“Before protection of medicine, before food safeguards, before any of those things, the first consumer protection law was against fake bourbon,” Haara says. “Americans, if nothing else, certainly understand what’s important in life.”

by federal law to mark their barrelheads with a bunch of information. So they branded it on — it was more efficient for them to just use a branding iron — the barrel, and the customers at the saloons and bars would start asking for bourbon by the ‘brand name.’”

More than an outlet for research, Haara’s Sipp’n Corn blog is also widely lauded for its bourbon reviews. Haara estimates he’s done 90 or so such reviews, with makers from all over sending him samples to critique.

When asked what his favorite is, if he had to pick, Haara is reticent to say. For one, it depends on the season and location, he says, all important variables. But he does offer a bit useful information regarding bourbon selection to those of us a bit more ignorant to the finer points of bourbon drinking.

In addition to Bourbon Justice, Haara also runs a successful blog called Sipp’n Corn (sippncorn.blogspot.com). While he was compiling research, Haara would often run across interesting cases or facts that he knew would make it into his book but that he couldn’t wait to let the rest of the world know about. For example, Haara recalls an interesting story behind the omnipresent phrase “brand name,” which is an icebreaker tidbit for your next dinner party if ever there “People who want to try something new, was one. they’ll try a $60 bottle of bourbon because they think it will be better than the things “That came out of bourbon,” he says.

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really struck me is that there are a handful of $30 bourbons that I think are just fantastic.”

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“I’ve found you can’t go wrong with Elijah Craig or Four Roses small batch or single barrel,” he says.

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