Monday biz briefing: Millennium Forge expanding, urban bourbon news and...
(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 11:45 a.m. on September 19.) Welcome to the September 19 top secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. We know … you’re groggy after the weekend,...
View ArticleMonday Biz Briefing: GE Appliance Park to make new Walmart line; downtown...
Welcome to the April 30 top secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are biz tips Insider Louisville staff and contributors have collected during the past few days, some of which are...
View ArticleMonday Biz Briefing: Stites & Harbison to Nucleus, Angel's Envy to the...
Welcome to the December 10 top secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are biz tips Insider Louisville staff and contributors and hangers-on have collected during the past few days,...
View ArticleJeff McKenzie on Louisville's urban bourbon distilleries: 'Every city in...
When Insider Louisville first reported in the summer of 2011 that Michter’s Distillery had purchased the historic Fort Nelson Building for a downtown distillery – open to the public – it ignited a...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Who has the NBA feasibility report from...
Welcome to the April 22 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors...
View ArticleOpening tonight: Meat bartenders staffing Angel’s Envy Derby Week ‘pop-up...
Angel’s Envy, a super-premium bourbon brand produced by Louisville Distilling Company, is bringing back its popular “pop-up bar” for Derby Week. The bar will be staffed with bartenders from (the...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Derby party highlights include Gazelle...
Welcome to the May 6 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Angel’s Envy chooses Joseph & Joseph architects for...
Welcome to the May 20 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors...
View ArticleAngel’s Envy gives IL the pre-scoop: ‘We’re still looking at several locations’
(Editor’s note: Michael Tierney and Terry Boyd contributed to this post.) We got an email yesterday from Wes Henderson making good on his promise to give Insider Louisville the scoop about where...
View ArticleKentucky rules bourbon! Spirits Journal picks Angel’s Envy Cask Strength as...
Angel’s Envy Bourbon’s super premium “Cask Strength” has been rated the world’s top spirit by “Spirits Journal,” an esteemed distilled spirits publication penned by respected booze wonk Paul Pacult....
View ArticleThe Angel has landed: Angel’s Envy signs go up on former Vermont American...
This has been something of a foregone conclusion for several months. But we had no conclusive proof exactly where the next urban-bourbon facility would go. Well, now we know, as of about 1 p.m. A...
View ArticleBlue Equity investing in Angel’s Envy brand, new downtown urban-bourbon...
Back in December, Insider Louisville was tracking the weekly developments with new bourbon brand Angel’s Envy. We were trying to figure out where they’d locate downtown and, most importantly, where the...
View Article‘Not a Disneyland distillery’: Angel’s Envy plans authentic urban bourbon...
Every new 21st Century business is trying to distill the magic from media buzz, investor interest and a bit of luck on the way to achieving instant brand traction. In startup jargon, “the secret...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Will a strategic cluster of Museum Row buildings go...
Welcome to the July 15 Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days,...
View ArticleAngel’s Envy Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson dies
This is bad news for both Louisville and for anyone who’s ever sat down and enjoyed the company of Lincoln Henderson. The bourbon legend and master distiller for the ultra-successful new Angel’s Envy...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: German automaker eyeing RiverRidge, and Distillery...
(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 8:15 a.m. on Mon., Nov. 25. Due to reporter error, the original version of this post misstated the historic high of Brown-Forman Class B stock, failing to note...
View ArticleAngel’s Envy deal stalls due to financing, remediation, bridge construction...
(Editor’s note: Kevin Gibson and Terry Boyd contributed to this post.) In early July, Insider Louisville broke the big news: The Angel was Landing. Angel’s Envy executives placed their logo on the...
View ArticleLucky ’13: Plans for downtown hotels, apartments and more make it a memorable...
How good a year has 2013 been for Louisville, especially downtown? As Tony the Tiger used to say, “Grrrrr-eat.” There were at least a dozen big projects announced this year, including two downtown...
View Article2013 Revisited: Highlights from a year in Louisville’s restaurant scene
Well, thus concludes another year covering the always dynamic, sometimes dastardly and ever-entertaining Louisville restaurant scene. It’s fair to call it a personal success to have not gained any...
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