The trend in our society in making bread, cheese, wine, beer – and now it’s our turn in the spirit business – is to be organic, to be as local as you can. Your hands are touching the soil and…

Alltech’s Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co., maker of Town Branch Bourbon, today became the seventh official stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour and the first craft distillery to join the trail. The $6 million distillery is scheduled to open in September…

Everything in moderation… including moderation. Julia Child, who would have been 100 on Aug. 15. Bon appetit!

HAVING WORK DONE: Business in downtown Louisville yesterday took me past the Fort Nelson Building, which is being restored by Michter’s as the site of a boutique bourbon distillery. The building is beautiful, but it needs a lot of work. Kudos…

Earlier on the blog, I quoted the Kentucky Distillers’ Association’s Eric Gregory about the increase in bourbon tourism here in Kentucky, particularly to the six distilleries that make up the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. But there are still people out there, believe…

My predecessor started the passport program in 2007, and 186 people completed the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that year. In five years we went from 186 people to nearly 12,000. We can’t print T-shirts fast enough. Eric Gregory, president of the…

Mint Julep Tours, a Louisville-based company that offers jaunts along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour and through horse country, is always coming up with new itineraries. Their latest combines a classic distillery experience with a quirky new tourist attraction. The all-day Zip,…

Food & Dining Magazine devotes much of its fall issue to bourbon – including a 14-page spread on the spirit’s past, present and future in Kentucky by a writer very dear to the Bourbon Babe’s heart. You can click on…

I thought that to have a complex drink, you had to have lots of ingredients. The reality is …. you can get a lot of complexity in an Old Fashioned with a good 100 proof whiskey, a good rich simple…

(Photo by Dan Dry) The Bourbon Women Association’s next event is a private tour of Woodford Reserve on Saturday, Aug. 11, that will include tastings and a three-course bourbon picnic on the porch prepared by the distiller’s chef, Ouita Michel. The event,…