date:Aug 23, 2013
The Kentucky Distillers Association traces its roots back to 1880, when 32 distillers met at the Galt House in Louisville and organized to protect our signature spirit from needless and obstructive laws and regulations.
The powerful group fought for decades to reduce whiskey taxes, shrink insurance fees and address other important measures of the time. But Prohibition whittled its ranks, and it eventually folded.
Ironically, Prohibition was responsible for the KDAs rebirth in 1935.
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