. ADVENTURES Be the Bottle Step into the role of Master Distiller and blend your own whiskey using different flavor profiles at Barrels & Billets in Louisville. Learn whiskey history during this custom bourbon experience, create a bourbon recipe, taste and blend six award-winning bourbons and name your creation. As an option, you can have your custom bourbon bottled onsite. Bourbon Small Town, Big Bourbon In a town measuring a wee 1.6 square miles, the Augusta Distillery spreads over 45,000 square feet in a former carriage maker’s building. In this historic Augusta setting, pop a barrel bung and thieve whiskey straight from the cask during a hands-on distillery experience. Bottle, cork and label your own spirit, and sip a rare, award-winning bourbon. Bourbon in a Barn Steal away to a farm in rural Frankfort for a Whiskey Thief Uncut & Unfiltered Tour at Whiskey Thief Distilling Co. Tour the stillhouse, sample up to five bourbons and/or whiskeys straight from the barrel and fill your own bottle. A team of Stave & Thief-certified bourbon stewards guides visitors through the experience. From Blankets to Bourbon Once the home of Churchill Weavers, known for its signature couch throws and blankets, this historic Berea landmark, now called Churchill’s, houses the upscale Honeysuckle Dining and Bourbon House . Seasonally changing menus plate up Southern classics with hints of modern and world influences. Cooperage Completes the Picture You’ve been to the distilleries. You’ve tasted the bourbons. Now go behind the scenes at Lebanon’s Kentucky Cooperage to see how the barrels that age Kentucky bourbon are flamed to just the right char to impart flavor and color — the perfect way to round out any Kentucky bourbon experience. FPO “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” Nobel Prize-and multi Grammy Award-winning legendary rocker Bob Dylan has co-created a collection of hand-crafted American whiskeys, showcased as part of one of the country’s largest selections of American whiskeys, in the new Heaven’s Door Spirits brand center in Louisville. Co-founded by Dylan, it features the Last Refuge — a restaurant, whiskey bar and live music venue set inside a converted 1879 church. SCAN THE QR CODE FOR MORE ABOUT KENTUCKY BOURBON. Clockwise from top left: Green River Distilling, Owensboro; Whiskey Thief Distilling Co., Frankfort; Dueling Grounds Distillery, Franklin; The Old Pogue Distillery, Maysville kentuckytourism.com 33
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