Tag: Louisville

A full day of drinking bourbon

Louisville freelance writer Dana McMahan spent a whole day drinking along the city’s Urban Bourbon Trail and lived to blog about it. My favorite revelation: President Harry S Truman purportedly started his day with a meal of toast, eggs, bacon, fruit,…

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Building a better distillery?

Students from the Yale School of Architecture are coming to Louisville to research a project on designing a contemporary urban bourbon distillery. They will study Louisville’s Whiskey Row and visit area distilleries including Woodford Reserve and Four Roses. Read more…

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All signs point to bourbon

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…

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Vote for Louisville!

Here in Louisville, Ky., we don’t just have access to fine bourbon. We have some of the best independent restaurants around – Jack Fry’s, Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, Limestone, 610 Magnolia (whose chef, Edward Lee, is currently a contestant on “Top…

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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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Whiskey Row: Rise, fall and renewal

Did you know that at the turn of the 20th century, Louisville, Ky., was the nexus of the bourbon industry? At one point, the River City’s Whiskey Row was home to nearly 90 whiskey-related concerns from all over the world. Read…

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Great moments in bourbon

To keep the Bourbon Heritage Month celebration rolling, here is a bit of Bourbon Trivia: The system of barrel ricking that is used in whiskey warehouses to this very day was patented right here in Louisville, Ky., by one Fredrick…

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High Society

Cheers to the members of The Bourbon Society, who graciously welcomed me to their monthly meeting earlier this week. The Society formed in 2006 as a way for local aficionados to explore not only the diversity of bourbon, but also its culture…

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