Whiskey City Bourbon Society, Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Est. 2026 Join the Society
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Where Lawrenceburg Whiskey History Lives On

Celebrating Lawrenceburg's whiskey heritage through education, fellowship, tastings, events, and the people who continue the tradition.

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LAWRENCEBURG, INDIANA • EST. 2026

What we're about

A bourbon club with deep roots

Whiskey City Bourbon Society is a private club for responsible adult bourbon lovers in and around Lawrenceburg. We gather to learn the story behind the glass, taste great whiskey together, and keep our town's distilling heritage alive for the next generation.

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Heritage

From the first still on Tanner's Creek to the warehouses on Shipping Street, we dig into the people and places that made Lawrenceburg “Whiskey City.”

02

Tastings & Education

Guided tastings, mash bill deep-dives, and distillery experiences that help every member find what they love in a pour.

03

Fellowship

Good company is the best part of good bourbon. Our events are about friendship, community, and raising a glass together.

Aerial photograph of the Seagram distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, around 1950, with brick warehouses beside Tanner's Creek
The Seagram Lawrenceburg plant, c. 1950

Two centuries on Tanner's Creek

Our town has been making whiskey for over 200 years

Lawrenceburg had everything a distiller could want: cool, limestone-filtered water from the Great Miami Aquifer, the Ohio River to carry barrels to market, and rich farmland full of rye and corn.

The ground where the first still stood in the early 1800s is part of a distillery campus that is still making whiskey today. That's the story we gather to celebrate.

Read the history

Whiskey City milestones

From frontier still to MGP Distillery

  1. Early 1800s

    The first still

    Isaac Dunn and Stephen Ludlow start Lawrenceburg's first distillery at the mouth of Tanner's Creek, grinding grain with a horse-powered mill.

  2. 1847

    Rossville Distillery

    George Ross builds the rye distillery that grows into today's MGP plant, Indiana's oldest distillery site still in production.

  3. 1860s–1919

    The golden age

    W.P. Squibb & Co., James Walsh & Co. and their neighbors turn Lawrenceburg and Greendale into a rye-whiskey powerhouse.

  4. 1920–1933

    Prohibition

    The stills go quiet, and “King of the Bootleggers” George Remus buys the Squibb distillery.

  5. 1933

    Seagram & Schenley

    Two of America's biggest spirits companies run giant distilleries side by side in one small river town.

  6. 2026

    Our story begins

    Whiskey City Bourbon Society is founded to carry the tradition forward.

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Whether you've been sipping Lawrenceburg whiskey for decades or you're just getting curious, there's a seat for you at our table.

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