To celebrate its 14th birthday (can that be right?? It seems like just yesterday it was a baby), the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour today unveiled the new Official Kentucky Bourbon Trail app. Available free on Apple’s iTunes Store (search “Kentucky…
The Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour will get an eighth stop – and the first-ever in Louisville – when Heaven Hill’s Evan Williams Bourbon Experience opens this fall at 528 W. Main St. Main Street in Louisville was once known as “Whiskey Row”…
“Kentucky’s Mash Appeal.” That’s how the Kentucky Distillers’ Association billed the bourbon and whiskey options from the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that were offered at a Derby Eve soiree at the Governor’s Mansion on Friday night. There really were 87 – although you had…
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,…
Today is the official grand opening of the Jim Beam American Stillhouse, the new visitors center at the Clermont, Ky., distillery. But the Stillhouse has been open for a few weeks, and I stopped by on one of my trips to…
As promised, here are some photos from the Sept. 10 grand opening of the new Visitors Center at Four Roses Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Above, master distiller Jim Rutledge and Kentucky Department of Tourism Commissioner Michael Mangeot cut the ribbon – or…
A few days ago I told you about the new visitors center that Wild Turkey is planning at its distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Today’s Courier-Journal has a quick interview with Roberto de Leon Jr. and Ross Primmer of De Leon…
Wild Turkey broke ground yesterday on a $4 million visitors center that will sit just behind its new distillery building on Wild Turkey Hill in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (That’s an artist rendering above.) The 8,500-square-foot visitors center will replace the current 1,000-square-foot gift…
The Woodford Reserve Distillery in Versailles, Ky., is celebrating 200 years of whiskey making this week. Of course, the distillery wasn’t always called Woodford Reserve; that brand, owned by Brown-Forman, began in the mid-1990s. But whiskey has been made on…
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