 The Makers Mark distillery owned by Suntory and the Buffalo Trace distillery owned by The Sazerac Company (which also owns the A. Smith Bowman microdistillery) are now producing specialty bourbon brands with small stills.It is anticipated that other megadistillers such as Bacardi, Brown-Forman, Pernod Ricard and Diageo, will soon join the parade.The modern microdistilling movement grew out of the beer microbrewing trend, which originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s and quickly spread throughout the United States in the following decades.