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The Beaumont Inn has been welcoming travelers to Harrodsburg, Ky., since 1919, and yet somehow I hadn’t made my way there until last weekend. I stayed at the Beaumont’s Goddard Hall after attending an event for ambassadors at Maker’s Mark in Loretto,…

When I heard that Marriott was opening a luxury hotel in Jeffersontown, Ky. – a bourbon-themed hotel, no less, with a destination restaurant and bar – I must say I was skeptical. True, Marriott was spending $22 million to renovate…

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…

After a few recent excursions to places where bourbon was sort of an afterthought, this past weekend I targeted two destinations where I knew it would be respected. I was not disappointed. At Against the Grain, the brewery and smokehouse that opened about three months…

Twenty-two U.S. presidents have visited The Homestead, a luxury resort in the bucolic town of Hot Springs, Va., and you can have a drink with all of them in the Presidents Lounge. This wood-paneled bar, with plush leather club chairs, soft lighting and…

I recently spent a couple of days in Atlantic City, N.J., and it wasn’t too long before I needed a drink. At Carmine’s, a New York-based chain of family-style Italian restaurants (this one in the Tropicana Hotel and Casino), I…