Laura Vernon is the current master distiller.

"This is going to be a big help," said Lincoln Henderson, Brown-Forman's master distiller.

Tours start at the prim red and gray Visitor's Center, built in 1889 to house the resident master distiller.

When made by a master distiller, however, this fiery spirit, the last element of wine, can be a truly distinguished drink.

The famous traditions remains a highly guarded secret, handed down in the company from master distiller to master distiller.

In 1972 Gary Gayheart became the master distiller.

Jeff Arnett, a company employee since 2001, became Jack Daniel's master distiller in 2008.

The master distiller for Four Roses has been Jim Rutledge since 1995.

According to the master distiller, only three bottles of this whisky were ever made, and it will not be made again.

Kakushi Mori, 56, the company's fifth-generation owner and master distiller, makes imo-jochu by hand, as his ancestors did.