Tag: Kentucky Derby

87 bottles of bourbon on the wall

“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…

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Hello, Mudder

Today is the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby. Just before the race, thousands of people will sing our state song, “My Old Kentucky Home” – you know, the one that begins, “The sun shines bright on my Old Kentucky Home.” Well, someone…

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Good advice as we approach Saturday’s 139th running of the Kentucky Derby.

Welcome to Derby week!

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…

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That’s the ticket

That $15 wager on I’ll Have Another won me $138 in the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby. (The Bourbon Babe may be prescient, but she is not a big spender. Still, that’s not a bad result.) Did anyone else cash a…

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The busy life of a master distiller

At the Kentucky Derby on Saturday I ran into Chris Morris, master distiller for Woodford Reserve, the event’s official bourbon. Chris was presiding over the mixing of mint juleps in the Woodford tent, where the temperature was probably upwards of…

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Call to the post

The sun shines bright on my Old Kentucky Home – which is entirely appropriate as today is the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby. The Bourbon Babe will be heading to the track shortly, but before I go, I’ll give…

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“On Derby Day, you can always tell the tourists from the locals,” Wild Turkey Master Distiller Jimmy Russell tells Esquire magazine. “Once ‘My Old Kentucky Home’ is over, we put down our mint juleps and pick up the bourbon.” Read…

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