Tag: bourbon

Shop: Bourbon Outfitter

Just in time for the holidays, my friends over at The Bourbon Review have opened Bourbon Outfitter kiosks at Louisville’s Oxmoor Mall and Lexington’s Fayette Mall. This is one-stop shopping for the bourbon lovers on your list. You’ll find merchandise…

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Free Bourbon (Society)

If you’ve been intending to check out The Bourbon Society, mark your calendar for Tuesday, Nov. 15, when the Louisville group holds its annual Open Meeting, free and open to all bourbon lovers.  At Tuesday’s meeting, The Bourbon Society will…

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I’ll drink to that!

Love, love, love this graphic from Ragan’s PR Daily that illustrates the article, “8 tips to make the writing process easier,” the lead of which perfectly sums up my feelings toward my chosen profession: “No one who writes for a living…

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Just Add Bourbon: Gift idea

The bourbon fan on your holiday gift list is sure to like this new item from Louisville Stoneware – especially if you include a little something to fill it. This miniature (4- by 4-and-a-half inches) version of a classic Kentucky…

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The Old-Fashioned: A history

It has been said that you are what you eat. Apparently, you are also what you drink – especially when it comes to the Old-Fashioned. In a column on Slate.com, Troy Patterson ruminates on the history of this “uniquely venerable…

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Guest blog post: The Hangover

flashesofreality: By Paula Burba I have here notes from this Wednesday evening’s Bourbon Babe tasting. I just left there, stopped for a lottery ticket *fingers crossed* and sat down at a coffee shop to bang out 500 words before picking…

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Good news for Whiskey Row

The cost will be “significant,” but most of the deteriorating buildings in the 100 block of Louisville’s West Main Street – known as “Whiskey Row” during the city’s heyday as the capital of the bourbon-shipping world – can be saved,…

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Have a drink with the Bourbon Babe

If you’re a bourbon-loving woman in the Louisville, Ky., metro area, make plans to join me this coming Wednesday for the first-ever Bourbon Babe Bourbon Tasting. We will explore the sometimes surprising fruit notes in several premium bourbons (is that…

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Jim Beam Devil’s Cut

Jim Beam Devil’s Cut 6 years old; 90 proof As you may have read here, Jim Beam master distiller Fred Noe recently played host to a special tasting for the Bourbon Women Association. He sent us all home with goodie…

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Urban Bourbon: Bourbons Bistro

As I’ve said many times, I am a student of bourbon, and I love my research. And a fine place to study is Bourbons Bistro, 2255 Frankfort Ave. in Louisville. One of the stops along Louisville’s Urban Bourbon Trail, Bourbons…

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