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…
“I’ve been here for less than 24 hours and I’ve had more pork and bourbon than I’ve had in my entire life.” Moth Mainstage storyteller Brian Finkelstein, host for “On the Rocks: Stories from the Distilleries,” taped at the Brown Theater…
Last month, I tasted Jacob’s Ghost, the new white whiskey from Jim Beam. It’s aged for at least a year in a charred white-oak barrel; the tinge of resulting color is filtered out, leaving it clear, but the aging gives it a…
The impetus for the modern drinking straw was… the mint julep. Tired of his natural rye-grass straw (the standard at the time) shedding in his drink, Marvin Chester Stone patented a wax-and-paper version in 1888. In the 1930s, Joseph B….
As promised, here is news about another Derby week doing: Angel’s Envy is bringing back its Kentucky Derby pop-up bar at 400 E. Main St. at Preston (directly across from Slugger Field) this week. The bar will be open from 4 to 9 p.m….
Col. Bourbon here and I would like to welcome y’all to Derby week, whether you are visiting from afar or are fortunate enough to call old Kentucky home. There’s a lot going on in the week leading up to the Greatest Two…
Willett Family Estate Bottled Single Barrel 4 years old; proof varies $44.99/750ml I recently visited Willett Distillery, just outside Bardstown, Ky., for the first time (see below) and purchased a bottle of their 4-year-old Single Barrel. This one was 113…
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof 134.2 proof; 12 years old $39.99/750ml This limited-edition, non-chill-filtered bourbon was released by Heaven Hill in late March and capitalizes on the recent trend toward higher-proof offerings. Aroma: Lots of vanilla, caramel and oak; sweet, but with a…
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