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The Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour will get an eighth stop – and the first-ever in Louisville – when Heaven Hill’s Evan Williams Bourbon Experience opens this fall at 528 W. Main St. Main Street in Louisville was once known as “Whiskey Row”…

Forty years later, it still gives you chills. Watching video of Secretariat blazing down the home stretch in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, winning the third leg of the Triple Crown by 31 lengths, a crowd gathered at the Kentucky Derby Museum earlier this…

LICENSED TO JULEP: I tell you what, even the out-of-towners are getting in on the act. North Carolina license plate spotted in South End of Louisville earlier this week.

We had kind of a strange winter in Kentucky this year – very little snow, just a few cold snaps, and overall pretty mild. Since the variation in seasonal temperatures plays a huge role in bourbon production – the liquid expands into the staves of…

Have a great weekend, everybody!

So, judging a julep recipe contest is harder than I thought it would be. I know, I know: I can feel the eyerolls from here. Tough job, Bourbon Babe! But hey, you taste 10 different – VERY different, in some…

“Paint. Drink. Have fun.” We did all of that last week at Pinot’s Palette, a new paint-and-sip studio in St. Matthews. While Pinot’s and other similar studios ply amateur artists with wine for inspiration, Pinot’s has added a twist: Bourbon Night. We sampled Woodford Reserve and Woodford Double Oaked…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5IqttLgKk?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0&w=500&h=375] Tim Krekel was a Louisville, Ky., singer-songwriter who died in 2009. This slow, spare, mournful song, “The Angel’s Share,” suits my mood on this Sunday evening. (The angel’s share is the portion of the whiskey lost to evaporation…

Heaven Hill Distilleries became only the second continuously operating distillery, and the first private family-owned one, to fill bourbon barrel No. 6.5 million on Tuesday at its Bardstown, Ky., facility. The independent family owned and operated distillery – the last in…

Over the past few years, we’ve seen lots of new bourbons hit the shelves. Right alongside them has been a growing collection of bottles filled with a clear spirit. Variously labeled white whiskey, unaged whiskey or the colloquial white dog, this is “pre-bourbon,” the…