Introducing: Tales of the Bourbon King -- The Life and True Crimes of George Remus

The Jazz Age was ruled by notorious bootleg barons, none bigger than the “Bourbon King” George Remus. His larger-than-life tale brings the 1920s and Prohibition to life, an era filled with love, murder, political intrigue, mountains of cash, and rivers of bourbon!  

“Tales of the Bourbon King,” hosted by award-winning cultural historian and biographer Bob Batchelor (author of The Bourbon Kind: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius) dives into the grand spectacle of Remus’s true crime lifestyle. This is a lens into the dark heart of American in the 1920s as Prohibition outlawed alcohol, but did just the opposite as criminals and devious mob leaders filled the streets with bootleg whiskey, flappers danced the night away, and blazing machine guns barked through the night. All told, the bootleg era brought in countless millions of dollars in illegal booze and cost countless lives as mobsters fought it out for supremacy. Atop it all sat George Remus, the “King of the Bootleggers,” a former pharmacist and one of America’s top attorneys who used his unique knowledge to turn America into his violent playground. He amassed a fortune and lived out a real-life Great Gatsby tale of mayhem and murder as he built an empire from the Ohio and Kentucky whiskey distilleries home to the finest bourbon in the world.  

Remus’s true crime story seems like it came straight from fiction, but his life set the tone for the decade – that is until it all came crashing down in an unbelievable story of deceit, prosecution, and the dastardly G-man who stole his wife, leading directly to that fateful gunshot that ended her life.  

Pour yourself a shot and get ready for an epic ride…These are “Tales of the Bourbon King -- The Life and True Crimes of George Remus!”