 Bring your own device to Appalachian Wireless and get up to $300 in bill credits. If you're looking to switch to the Big Blue Appalachian Wireless Network, there's no better time than right now to bring in your device because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. As the Bourbon Boom continues, Bourbon is now a premier signature industry in the state of Kentucky. The Bourbon industry generated over $9 billion in the state economy and over 20,000 jobs in 2022. I mean, it's really gotten big. I think it's Kentucky's biggest cash draw right now. The Bourbon Trail and the Kentucky Distillers Association has done an exceptional job of getting Kentucky promoted and getting people, I go all over the country and people, that's all they talk about, the Bourbon Trail, Bourbon Trail. So, and it's just, it's took off, it's a, it's kind of a romance kind of thing. The barrels, the aging, the time it takes. Kentucky Straight Bourbon must sit in a new barrel for a minimum of four years. Each year the Bourbon ages, 3% of the spirit is lost, driving up prices for aged Bourbons. It all goes back, and this is what I've always said, there was a show called Mad Men that came out and they started doing the old fashions, they started doing the Manhattan's and everything else and it kind of sparked everybody and with a newer generation that we have right now, they're all about all natural. You're using wood from the mountains, you're using corn from the ground, you're using water from the ground and you're using yeast that flies around the air and can't get more natural than that. And then most of your byproduct that you use is going to raise cattle and livestock and so it's not very wasteful or anything and it makes a high quality product. The way I try to tell people is Bourbon and Kentucky is like wine and Sonoma. For more information on the Bourbon Trail and local distilleries, go to Kentucky Bourbon Trail on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.