

Hugh Wesley - An Entrepreneurial Spirit of Spirits
Hugh Wesley Sharp - The Namesake of Hugh Wesley's Gin Hugh Wesley was born into the grain business. His father John Wesley had a major...

John Emerald: a Life Well Lived
John Emerald Sharp was born in 1928 to Hugh and Elizabeth Sharp. John’s family was what one might call merchant class. They worked hard...


It Only Took 100 Years
John Emerald Distillery in Opelika, Alabama has released the first legal whiskey distilled in Alabama since Prohibition. In 1915 Lem...


Questions From Our Customers
Jimmy and I give lots of distillery tours at John Emerald and there seem to be several questions we get over and over, so we thought...