KY Bourbon Trail Experience: Castle & Key Distillery

Bourbon Gin Chronicles: Castle & Key Distillery This is a location not to be missed. Personally, I’m more of a gin fan than bourbon. And while this distillery is technically not (at this time) part of the KY Bourbon trail, it is absolutely worth your time to visit. They’ve recently started releasing a line of… Read More

KY Bourbon Trail Experience: Distillery “Ice Cube Rating” System & Ranking

In the most unstructured of ways, this is simply a fun way for my husband and I to document and rate our visits to the various bourbon, gin and brandy distilleries we’ve begun visiting around Kentucky along the famous bourbon trail. We moved to Louisville from San Francisco basically in the middle of what became… Read More

KY Bourbon Trail Experience: Bulleit & Wild Turkey

Bourbon Chronicles: Bulleit Frontier Whiskey and Wild Turkey Distillery We visited both bourbon distilleries back in 2011 when mask mandates were still in place and tour sizes were drastically reduced which meant, when we visited Wild Turkey, we only walked the grounds and did not get to experience their tour. But! the good news is… Read More

KY Bourbon Trail Experience: Buffalo Trace

The Bourbon Chronicles: Buffalo Trace Distillery Buffalo Trace is the producer of some of the finest bourbons on the market (when you can find them): Blanton’s, Pappy van Winkle, Eagle Rare, and of course Buffalo Trace, among others. They’re some of the best – and highly coveted – bourbons in the eyes of bourbon collectors… Read More

KY Bourbon Trail Experience: Kentucky Artisan Distillery

The Bourbon Chronicles: Kentucky Artisan Distillery (KAD) We’re really thrilled to have this notable distillery basically in our backyard of Louisville. Our guide provided a fantastic history lesson about how bourbon evolved into what it came to be and is today. Its affordable price and convenient location means we’ll definitely recommend it to any of… Read More