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[email protected] Thousands of people sample bourbon and beer during the 2016 Bourbon and Brewfest at Bowling Green Ballpark. FUN BY THE GLASS Ballpark and Nivens said he “Me and one of the other the wine industry. New laws help grow businesses of has high expectations for the owners are originally from Kentucky was once a third annual Bourbon and Louisville and we see all thriving state for winemak- local brewers, vintners, distillers Brewfest this October at the kinds of festivals like this ers – the Kentucky Vineyard ballpark. up there, and Nashville Society was founded in 1798 By JUSTIN STORY raised production limits for and Brewfest, has seen the “We expect to have any- is the same way,” Nivens by Jean-Jacques Dufour,
[email protected] licensed microbrewers and daylong event mushroom where between 2,500 and said. “We want to bring that who planted his grapes in small farm wineries to dis- in popularity in a very short 3,000 visitors this year,” kind of big-city event into a Jessamine County. If you’re planning a night tilleries now being allowed time. Nivens said. smaller town and hopefully According to the Kentucky on the town, a bustling local to sell drinks