In the past year, six new distilleries have joined the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. All of them are micro-distilleries, or craft distillers, meaning they keep fewer than 25,000 barrels of spirits in inventory at any one time. A couple of weekends…
Heaven Hill Distilleries released this Red State/Blue State bourbon to create a buzz leading up to the 2012 presidential election. The bourbon in the bottles is the same, but the dueling labels allow you to show your true colors. Politically, Kentucky…
Today is the inaugural World Whisky Day, an event established by a 21-year-old student at the University of Aberdeen who grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland. Blair Bowman, who hopes this will become an annual event, says his goal is to get…
In case you haven’t noticed, bourbon isn’t the only thing we’re good at here in Kentucky. We are also pretty good at college basketball. And our basketball fans are just as passionate about their teams as they are about their…
I had a chance to visit briefly with busy Bourbons Bistro chef Michael Crouch following the Bourbon Babe Cocktail Party earlier this week. He was sipping a glass of Rock Hill Farms – one of my personal favorites. I asked…
I’m a day late, but I had to share this amusing entry from Gut Check, the food-and-drink blog of the Riverfront Times, St. Louis’ alternative newsweekly, in which it occurs to writer Ian Froeb that many of our former presidents…
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…
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…
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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