Tag: Urban Bourbon Trail

Angel’s near the outfield

For almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve been hearing that Angel’s Envy was going to build a distillery somewhere along Louisville’s Whiskey Row. Yesterday, on the blog’s second birthday (cheers!), Louisville Distilling Co., the company that…

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Louisville to join the Bourbon Trail

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”…

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Cheers to the winners!

I want to thank everyone who entered the Bourbon Babe Birthday Contest – and, indeed, everyone who takes the time to read this blog. But there could be only two winners, and after a random draw from all entries, they…

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Last day to enter!

OK, bourbon lovers, today’s the day. You have until midnight to enter the Bourbon Babe Birthday Contest marking the first birthday of this blog. There are two great prizes: an assortment of “Just Add Bourbon” merchandise from the nice people in Bourbon…

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New: The Bourbon Classic

Bardstown has the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. Now, Louisville has the Bourbon Classic. The Classic, touted as “a connoisseur’s weekend celebrating all things bourbon” and intended to become an annual event, will debut March 22-23, 2013, at the Kentucky Center for…

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You can’t win if you don’t enter

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…

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Prizes – we have prizes!

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…

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Happy Birthday, blog!

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…

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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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A sip for the solstice

Today is the winter solstice. That means tonight is the longest night of the year, and if that doesn’t call for a bourbon, I don’t know what does. My suggestion: Black Maple Hill Small Batch, a 95-proof bourbon made by Heaven Hill….

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