Tag: Bourbon Babe

In this trying election season, I finally have a cause I can get behind wholeheartedly: the Cocktail Party. Leave it to the folks at Maker’s Mark to find us all some common ground. If you’re a Maker’s Mark ambassador, you…

It’s starting to get cold here in Kentucky. Bourbon aging in barrels will start to contract, drawing with it the flavors and colors of the wood and the char.

People come to Woodford Reserve and Jim Beam and Evan Williams because these are brands that their family has enjoyed for generations, and they want to ‘come home’ – to see where it’s made and walk in the footsteps of…

Wild Turkey announced this week that it is teaming up with the Anderson Valley Brewing Company in Boonville, Calif., to produce a line of bourbon barrel-aged craft beers. Anderson Valley will use repurposed oak barrels from Wild Turkey to infuse its craft…

The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…

Today is the soft opening for Art Eatables, a new chocolate shop on Fourth Street in downtown Louisville featuring the small-batch bourbon truffles of Kelly Ramsey. Kelly calls herself “the Cocktail Chocolatier,” and with good reason. Her chocolates are not the bourbon balls that…

Bourbon and Banter, a group of bourbon enthusiasts based in St. Louis, Mo., made a pilgrimage to Kentucky over the weekend. They visited several distilleries from a base in Louisville, and I joined them Friday for a three-course dinner at…

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour just got bigger – by adding some little guys. The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour will include seven micro-distilleries that stretch from Marshall to Mason counties: Barrel House Distillery, Lexington Corsair Artisan Distillery, Bowling Green Limestone…

Larceny Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Very Special Small Batch 92 proof Larceny, a new bourbon from Heaven Hill’s Parker and Craig Beam, is being marketed under the tagline, “A taste made famous by an infamous act.” As I reported previously, that’s a reference…

The fall issue of The Bourbon Review is out. Be sure to check out my story about the rise of the craft distilling movement across the country, as well as an interview with Trey Zoeller of Jefferson’s Bourbon and some great…