Kentucky Bourbon Trail Day Two

On Friday we dropped the boys off, went for a walk, cleaned up and hit the road for day #2 of drinking. You just can't beat the Bourbon trail. The state of KY has limited the samples--only 2 ounces, so not enough do to any kind of damage. Good thing since I dislike  Bourbon.

Day two was down to Bardstown, KY--home of Bourbon. We went to THREE! We hit up Jim Bean, Maker's Mark and Heaven Hill. We also went to Mammy's Kitchen in Bardstown and I was extremely disappointed. According to TripAdvisor it was a great restaurant. I don't know if it was due to the lunch crowd on a Friday or what, but it was super slow and put us in a rush to get to the last distillery! The pie--however--was a coconut cream pie that was pretty darn good...as the GymBF told me about a 1,000 times that day.

The first stop was Jim Beam. It has a great and interactive tour. You get to add the grain to the masher, fill a White Oak barrel and bottle your own Bourbon. There is tasting throughout--of the grain mash, of the White Dog or 'Ghost' Bourbon as well as Bourbon straight out of the barrel with the charred oak floating around in it.

GymBF was asked to help fill up a brand new barrel of Bourbon. I caught a lot of funny pics, but thought I would spare him the embarrassment! HA! If you are his friends and want blackmail pics, email me! :)

GymBF thumb printed his own bottle of KnobCreek. Kinda exciting!

Jim Beam is a great tour. I have now gone on it twice. I am a Jim Beam expert. HA! It is fun to hear the different tour guides. The one thing I heard on EVERY tour--and remember, I went on NINE is...

FUN Fact! (And they all start with that...fun fact...) There are more barrels of aging Bourbon in the State of KY than there are people!

























After Jim we went to Maker's Mark and Heaven Hill. Heaven Hill only had one tour left for the day, so we were forced to drink $249.99 Elijah Craig, $189.99 something or other and McKenna and Larceny. Heaven Hill also makes Early Times *my fav* Old Fitzgerald and Evan Williams. They distill a LOT of Bourbon.

It was fun to taste 20PLUS year Bourbon. Tasted the same to me, but what do I know???