destination teeming with sipping, supping and snacking options: Ethereal Brewing, Barrel House Distilling, Middle Fork Kitchen Bar, Crank & Boom Craft Ice Cream Lounge . (Bourbon and honey ice cream? Yes, please!) Visit one of the most spectacular selfi e stops anywhere – the Maker’s Mark-branded Lebanon Water Tower with its 135-foot-long pour. Taste and tour through Kentucky Bourbon Country along the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail ® , then head deeper into the heart of handcrafted bourbon on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour ® . Dip into bourbon’s epicenter in Bardstown, Bourbon Capital of the World, and get schooled in the American whiskey industry at the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History . Stroll around Louisville on the Urban Bourbon Trail . International Bluegrass Music Museum Birthplace of Bluegrass Music Kentucky is just as smitten with its bluegrass – music, that is. That “high lonesome sound” courtesy of the fi ddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, upright bass, Dobro and jaw harp, is music you can sink your teeth into. And it was created in Kentucky by a man called “Big Mon” (Bill Monroe) in a place known as Jerusalem Ridge . Get a glimpse into the childhood of the Father of Bluegrass Music at the Bill Monroe Homeplace in Rosine. Learn more about the musical prodigy, his family and his band, the Bluegrass Boys, at Rosine’s new Bill Monroe Museum . See a treasure trove of musical instruments – Pendleton “Uncle Pen” Vandiver’s fi ddle, Pete Seeger’s banjo, Benny Martin’s fi ddle and more – at Owensboro’s 26 1-800-225-8747 / 1-800-225-TRIP Keeneland
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