The Garage Bar

Looking for a quick bite before attending a production at Actors Theatre on Friday, we were lured by the lights of The Garage Bar, housed in a former service station on East Market Street. The Garage Bar, which is owned…

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Neither shaken nor stirred

Although James Bond is most often associated with the vodka martini, the greatest Bond ever, Sean Connery, also enjoyed his bourbon – or at least acted as if he did in a series of ads for Beam, Jim Beam in…

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Some Buffalo Love from Buffalo Trace

My Valentine and I got a head start on today’s holiday by attending the first ever “Buffalo Love” dinner at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., on Feb. 11. This elegant dinner, catered by Dupree Catering in Lexington, paired six courses with…

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The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By dint of careful application, I learned to like it. Sir Winston Churchill, speaking of his early life in India and South Africa

Tornado Surviving Bourbon

E.H. Taylor Warehouse C Tornado Surviving Bourbon Bottled in bond at 100 proof by Buffalo Trace Distillery This limited-edition bourbon was created from 93 barrels spared by a 2006 storm that swept through Buffalo Trace Distillery, damaging historic Warehouse C….

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A new ‘twist’ on the E.H. Taylor line

In the spring of 2006, a severe storm ripped through the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Ky., heavily damaging two warehouses used for aging bourbon. Warehouse B was empty at the time, but Warehouse C, which was built in 1881 by…

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We have 17 kinds of bourbon behind the bar. We’ll even give you the first one on the house. Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) to Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), “Justified”

Lawrenceburg Lemonade

As promised, today we share the recipe for our original cocktail: the Lawrenceburg Lemonade. This isn’t a sticky-sweet drink like its Southern cousin, Lynchburg Lemonade. It pays homage to Anderson County, Ky.’s two fine distilleries, Wild Turkey and Four Roses…

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Bourbon in the house

As a bourbon blogger, I feel it’s my duty to introduce my friends to brands they might not have tried yet. So last weekend, my husband and I held a “Bourbon and BBQ” soiree. We served barbecue because A) its…

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Bon Appetit on Bourbon

“Southerners drink bourbon like the French drink wine: with pride and abandon,” begins a fine blog post on Bon Appetit Daily titled “15 Very Important Things You Should Know About Bourbon.” How many do you know? Find out here.