Access Louisville

The bourbon news doesn't seem to stop flowing.We chat about a major strategy change for Louisville-based distiller Brown-Forman Corp. (NYSE: BF-A, BF-B) on this week's Access Louisville podcast. The discussion was spurred by the recent news that the company, which owns Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, Old Forester and other spirits brands, is laying off 12% of its global workforce and shutting down its Louisville cooperage.You can read more about the news from Brown-Forman here, as well as some reaction from the industry on the cooperage closure specifically.We chat about what the news means for local tourism. Bourbon sales are undoubtedly slowing down. But the famed Kentucky spirit still has plenty of fans that are up for a visit. You can check out our most recent list of the area's biggest bourbon attractions here. We also discuss a local Hemp company that's considering a similar tourism-driven facility in Louisville. After the bourbon and hemp talk, we switch gears to talk movies —