At only 28, Marianne Barnes has her dream job.
Barnes, who grew up in La Grange, just became the first woman in Kentucky to be named a master distiller since Prohibition.
Barnes recently left her role as master taster at Brown-Forman, where she got her start in the industry, and joined forces with founders Will Arvin and Wesley Murray to restore the Old Taylor Distillery in Millville, near Frankfort.
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