Bourbon is more than a business for Jesse Carpenter — it’s a tribute to the city that shaped him.
“This is Durham. This is where I’m from. This is where I grew up,” said Carpenter, Chief Product Officer of Old Hillside Bourbon.
The company he co-founded with childhood friends takes its name and identity from one of Durham’s most iconic institutions — Hillside High School, one of the oldest historically Black high schools in the nation…