Although I like my bourbon neat (or on the rocks), I also like to mix it up into a cocktail, especially in the summer. Since I’m still pretty much a novice bartender, I don’t have a huge arsenal of recipes at…

I celebrated the solstice in style last Thursday with a James Beard Foundation-sanctioned dinner in Lexington prepared by Chef Jonathan Lundy of Lexington’s Jonathan at Gratz Park and Chef Darin Nesbit of the Bourbon House in New Orleans. Each of the five…

Anderson County, Ky., is an important stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour, home to both the Wild Turkey and Four Roses distilleries. In the heyday of bourbon production before Prohibition, it was home to even more distilleries, and bourbon…

The summer solstice is the first official day of summer, but the weather here in Kentucky doesn’t stand on ceremony. Son, it is already HOT. So instead of savoring that little burn from taking my bourbon neat, I’ve been looking for…

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. Walker Percy (1916-1990), Southern author (“The Moviegoer,” “Love in the Ruins”) and co-founder of the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Inspired by the storied history and recent resurgence of Louisville’s Whiskey Row, Kevin Yates and Katie Kelty, who met while both were students at Bellarmine University, have started a new line of products that celebrate that heritage: Bourbon Built. Their…

Happy Pappy’s Day to all the fathers out there – including mine, who doesn’t imbibe, but who taught me that anything worth doing is worth doing well, and who has always been proud of what I’ve accomplished. Cheers!

Josh Mitcham likes to make art using reclaimed materials. So one day he took a 1960s-era Coca-Cola crate from his dad’s Breckinridge County, Ky., barn and painted an image on it of Jack Nicholson in “The Shining” – that “Heeeeere’s…

Today, June 14, is National Bourbon Day. Which begs the question, what day isn’t Bourbon Day? Nonetheless, today holds the distinction of being the “official” day, and so we might as well celebrate it. Bourbon truly is a cause of…

Every day, my faithful assistant, Google, delivers a list of stories and online posts that mention “bourbon” to my inbox. When I spotted a blog called “Gastronomical Sovereignty” on the list, I knew I had to check that out. I…