BOURBON TOURISTS

MADE A RECORD
502.875.9351 1 MILLION KENTUCKY

BARREL
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DISTILLERY STOPS IN 2016 SOURCED CORN
Since 1880, the Kentucky
KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL
ATTRACTS 900,000 VISITS CONTINUES
Distillers Association has
stood strong in supporting
175,000 STOPS AT KENTUCKY
BOURBON TRAIL CRAFT TOUR TO GROW STRENGTH
300% INCREASE IN ATTENDANCE KDA DISTILLERS BOUGHT 65 PERCENT MORE
Americas distilled spirits OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS LOCAL CORN IN THE LAST 2 YEARS

industry and the nations 16.5 MILLION BUSHELS OF GRAIN AIDS

KENTUCKY FARM FAMILIES
only native spirit, Bourbon.
And the business has ON PACE FOR 9 BUSHELS OF CORN + 3 BUSHELS OF OTHER

RECORD
GRAINS = 1 BARREL OF BOURBON
never looked better.
PROVIDING A BOOST FOR
GROWTH THE LOCAL
Learn more at:
www.kybourbon.com BY 2020
MORE THAN 20,000 EMPLOYEES ECONOMY
www.kybourbontrail.com
$1 BILLION PAYROLL DISTILLERS PAID A RECORD
www.kybourbonaffair.com $17.8 MILLION IN BARREL

KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL, KBT, BOURBON TRAIL,

$10 BILLION IN ECONOMIC OUTPUT TAXES IN 2016
THE ECONOMIC
REVENUE FUNDS LOCAL
KENTUCKY BOURBON CRAFT TOUR AND KENTUCKY BOURBON AFFAIR
SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, IMPACT OF KENTUCKYS
ARE TRADEMARKS/SERVICE MARKS OF THE KENTUCKY DISTILLERS ASSOCIATION .
PUBLIC SAFETY
SIGNATURE BOURBON
PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY.
$1 BILLION TAX-ASSESSED VALUE
& DISTILLED SPIRITS
EXPORTED TO OF AGING BARRELS
IS $2.4 BILLION INDUSTRY
126 DIFFERENT VALUE MORE THAN
COUNTRIES DOUBLED IN LAST
10 YEARS
LARGEST EXPORT CATEGORY OF
ALL U.S. DISTILLED SPIRITS
2017 KENTUCKY DISTILLERS ASSOCIATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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 MORE JOBS POURS $8.5 KENTUCKYS SPIRITS
PRODUCING
TAX BURDEN
95 PERCENT
OF THE
AND HIGHER
SPIN-OFF THAN ALL
BUT ONE KENTUCKY
INDUSTRY
BILLION
INTO KENTUCKYS
LEADS ALL
WORLDS ECONOMY EVERY YEAR INDUSTRIES
SUPPLY FOR EVERY DISTILLING
JOB, THREE MORE ARE
CREATED DOWN THE LINE
IN THE COMMONWEALTH
HIGHEST AMONG ALL 536 MANUFACTURING
ONLY LIGHT TRUCKS/UTILITY INDUSTRIES IN KENTUCKY
VEHICLES HAVE MORE JOBS BOURBON PRODUCTION HAS
& HIGHER MULTIPLIER INCREASED 315 PERCENT SINCE 1999 34.4 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR
KENTUCKY IS THE BIRTHPLACE NEARLY 2 MILLION BARRELS GOES TO TAXES
OF BOURBON FILLED IN 2015 BEER PAYS 16 CENTS PER DOLLAR
AMERICAS ONLY NATIVE SPIRIT, WINE TAXED AT 3.5 CENTS PER DOLLAR
AS DECLARED BY CONGRESS IN 1964
KENTUCKY SPIRIT TAXES ARE

KENTUCKYS SIGNATURE DISTILLING INDUSTRY:
AS MANY AS 17,500
JOBS,
$800 MILLION IN
PAYROLL,
$825 MILLION
IN TA X RE V ENUE
MORE THAN 50 DISTILLERIES AS OF 2017
MORE THAN A THIRD OF ALL
DISTILLING JOBS IN THE U.S.
AVERAGE SALARY OF $95,000
CRAFT DISTILLERS EMPLOY 200
PEOPLE WITH $5.5 MILLION PAYROLL
KENTUCKY HAS
MORE BOURBON
THAN PEOPLE
MORE THAN 6.7 MILLION
BARRELS OF BOURBON AGING
4 .3 MILLION PEOPLE
HIGHEST INVENTORY IN
MORE THAN 40 YEARS
$1.1
FIFTH HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY
MORE
THAN
BILLION WE CANT
IN CAPITAL EVEN BEAT
PROJECTS TENNESSEE...
BUILDING BOOM INCLUDES NEW
TENNESSEE SECOND TO
DISTILLERIES, WAREHOUSES,
TOURISM CENTERS KENTUCKY IN WHISKEY
PRODUCTION NATIONALLY
NEXT AMBER WAVE TAXES SPIRITS AT TWO-THIRDS
OF INVESTMENTS WILL THE RATE AS KENTUCKY
CREATE 1,000 NEW JOBS,
$38 MILLION IN PAYROLL,
$4 MILLION IN TAX REVENUE

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