Have you taken the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour? If you haven’t, well, what are you waiting for? If you have, you likely took home souvenir glasses from each of the six distilleries on the trail: Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Maker’s…
Love bourbon? Want to tell the world about it? Then you’ll love this prize package I’m offering to mark the Bourbon Babe blog’s first birthday. The folks at Bourbon Country, home of Louisville’s Urban Bourbon Trail, have donated a great…
It’s hard to believe, but this blog is a year old this month. It’s been a fun year of tasting bourbons, meeting great people in the industry and connecting with lots of other fans of America’s native spirit. To celebrate, the…
Anderson County, Ky., is an important stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail tour, home to both the Wild Turkey and Four Roses distilleries. In the heyday of bourbon production before Prohibition, it was home to even more distilleries, and bourbon…
CNN International has included “a bourbon distillery tour” on its list of “10 Classic American Experiences,” along with such things as a road trip on Route 66, state fairs, drive-in theaters, NASCAR and New Orleans jazz. But only one of the…
Gill Holland, co-owner of The Green Building at 732 E. Market St. in Louisville’s NuLu District, wants to establish Louisville as the “Gateway to Bourbon Country.” And now a new bike rack sculpture in front of the building is pointing the…
A record number of people visited all six distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 2011, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association reported this week. The total of 11,757 visitors, representing all 50 states and 16 countries, was well above the previous record of 9,402, set…
The Daily, the news and entertainment app developed for the iPad, recently featured Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail in its feature “The Daily Travel.” The stunning photos, including those shown here, were shot by my friend Amber Sigman. To see more and read the article,…
UPDATE: The Speakeasies won the third annual Bourbon Chase, and they made it look easy, indeed, covering the 200-mile course in 19 hours and 35 minutes. That’s a pace of 5:52 per mile! Next year’s race is Sept. 28-29. Right…
For the fourth straight year, Gov. Steve Beshear today declared September “Bourbon Heritage Month” in the commonwealth of Kentucky, which produces 95 percent of the world’s bourbon. (The other 5 percent, he has quipped, is counterfeit.) “This has been a…
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