Brough Brothers Distillery sits on Dixie Highway in Louisville’s Shawnee neighborhood, where brothers Christian and Bryson Brough turned their family’s bourbon-making legacy into a modern craft operation. The brothers, whose great-great-grandfather distilled whiskey in Kentucky before Prohibition, opened their doors in 2014 after years of planning and recipe development in a restored industrial building that once housed auto parts manufacturing. They focus primarily on bourbon and rye whiskey, using traditional mash bills with their own tweaks developed through extensive experimentation. The 8,000-square-foot facility houses custom copper stills from Vendome Copper & Brass Works, the same company that built equipment for many of Kentucky’s legendary distilleries. What started as weekend hobby distilling in their garage became a full-scale operation when both brothers left their corporate careers—Christian from finance and Bryson from engineering—to pursue whiskey full-time. They’ve built everything from grain-to-glass on site, meaning you can watch the entire process from milling corn to bottling finished bourbon. The operation remains deliberately small-scale, producing around 200 barrels per year, which allows them to maintain hands-on control over every batch while experimenting with different aging techniques and barrel finishes.