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Visiting Kentucky? There Is More To It Than Distilleries
By Richard Thomas Roasting barrels(Credit: The Clio) For the serious bourbon fan, coming to the Bluegrass and visiting distilleries is a good start to understanding and appreciating Kentucky’s native...
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Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond Festival Announces Food Line-Up
Louisville has been positioning itself as Bourbon Central in recent years, with a handful of events such as the annual Bourbon Affair and Whisky Live being held in the Derby City. Now the inaugural...
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LBL Moonshine Up For Auction
By Richard Thomas LBL Moonshine, once the premier legal moonshine brand in Western Kentucky due to its appearance in The Discovery Channel’s Moonshiners, is reportedly up for auction. Spencer Balentine...
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Tennessee Launches Its Own Whiskey Trail
When the Kentucky Distillers Association launched the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 1999, whiskey tourism was in its infancy, there was no bourbon or craft whiskey boom, and the trail had just 10 stops....
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Strolling Down Noe’s Way
By Debbie Shocair (Credit: Beam-Suntory) I’ve been writing about whiskey for approximately a bazillion years. Sometimes I enjoy thinking of myself as, in the way I put it, “sort of a big deal” in...
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Dublin’s Pearse Lyons Distillery To Open For Tourism In September
Pearse Lyons Distillery at St. James in the Liberties, Dublin’s second boutique Irish Whiskey experience, is due to open its doors to the public in September. Acquired in 2013 by Pearse and Deirdre...
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Bourbon Tourism Turns Nightlife With Summer Events Series
By Richard Thomas The fieldstone rickhouses of Labrot & Graham(Credit: Richard Thomas) Thanks to the bourbon boom and its attendant increase in tourism, most of Kentucky’s distilleries have become...
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Buffalo Trace Adds Its “Bourbon Pompeii” To The Tour Docket
Buffalo Trace Distillery kicks off its long-awaited tour to its famous “Bourbon Pompeii” on Monday, August 7th, 2017. Officially called the E. H. Taylor Tour, the tour will visit three sites at this...
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Old Forester Distillery Takes Step Forward, Installs Still
This past Saturday, Old Forester installed the centerpiece of its new distillery – the column still. Produced by Vendome Copper and Brass Works, the Old Forester still is 24 inches wide and 44 feet...
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What To Know About Dubai’s Whiskey Scene
By Debajit Dhar (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) Dubai’s glitzy mega-resorts, glamorous hotels and deluxe dining venues offer whiskey enthusiasts various opportunities to enjoy their favorite spirit. It...
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Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond Events, Booze And Food Expanding Rapidly
With less than a month until the inaugural Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Danny Wimmer Presents is excited to announce the official schedule of music performances, experiences and additional events,...
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Whiskey Time And Tales Of The Cocktail
Why A Cocktail Convention Might Also Be The Best Whiskey Festival By Kurt Maitland (Credit: Kurt Maitland) You might have seen them. They work or dabble in booze and disappeared for a few days in late...
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Q&A With Kevin Ashworth, 610 Magnolia
Executive Chef At One Of Louisville’s Poshest Restaurants Talks Cooking And Bourbon By Richard Thomas Kevin Ashworth(Credit: Sara Babcock) Attendant with Kentucky’s Bourbon Boom is the proliferation of...
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Buffalo Trace’s “Bourbon Pompeii” Has Been Underwater Before, And Will Be Again
By Richard Thomas “Bourbon Pompeii”(Credit: Richard Thomas) When I attended the unveiling of Buffalo Trace Distillery’s “Bourbon Pompeii,” it was with the eye of a history and archaeology fan,...
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Slane Whiskey Poised To Open Ireland’s Latest Distillery This Fall
By Richard Thomas Ever want to imbibe whiskey in the stable room of a castle?(Credit: Brown-Forman) When Beam Global (now Beam Suntory) bought the Cooley Distillery in 2012, the effect it had in the...
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Bourbon & Beyond Expands On Kentucky’s Whiskey Festivals
By April Manning Bourbon & Beyond(Credit: April Manning) When Louisville celebrates bourbon, they definitely go beyond expectations. Louisville, KY honored National Bourbon Heritage Month by...
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Whisky-Making In Mainland Australia
By Richard Thomas Starward Whisky(Credit: New World Whisky Distillery) When Australian whisky became famous, it was really whisky from a single region that got the attention: Tasmania. This is because...
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Spending The Holidays At A Distillery
By Richard Thomas The tasting room at Angel’s Envy (Credit: Angel’s Envy) A distillery is in essence a booze-making factory, and like blue-collar industrial enterprises everywhere, they often close on...
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Distilling Returns to Lexington’s James E. Pepper Distillery
By Richard Thomas (Credit: Richard Thomas) Lexington’s old Pepper Distillery is a fixture of some of my earliest childhood memories. When I was in kindergarten, the family farm was just down the road...
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Irish Whiskey Tourism Rose 11% Last Year
Last week, the Irish Whiskey Association announced that the number of tourists visiting Irish Whiskey distilleries rose by 11%. The statistics reflect 12 distilleries in Ireland. 814,000 people visited...
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