BourbonBlog.com congratulates Corsair Distillery for winning BOTH “Craft Distillery of the Year” and “Innovator of the Year” for Whisky Magazine’s Icons of Whiskey awards which were recently presented in Louisville, KY! Nashville’s first microdistillery, Corsair Distillery, was awarded two of the highest honors in the world of whiskey this week. Corsair was awarded both “Craft… Read more »
× Watch the video segment above as BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer joins friends from Seven Grand, Los Angeles to select a private barrel with Master Distiller Jim Rutledge. In this Private Barrel Selection program, we taste all 10 unique recipes of Four Roses at barrel strength as we start our day around 11 am Thursday morning. Seven… Read more »
× U.S.A. Olympic Sailor Ben Barger joins Four Roses Bourbon during Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2012 to try his hand at sailing through the world of Bourbon! You’ve probably seen Ben on TV as he is a professional athlete, 7 time National Champion, winner of 3 World Cup Medals, and an alternate in the 2012 London Olympics…. Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com joins Four Roses and 300 of their friends for the “Let’s Talk Bourbon” event at Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2012 This is the 21st year of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, and the 20th year of “Let’s Talk Bourbon.” This weeks also marks the opening of the new Four Roses Visitor Center. We speak with… Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer joins Four Roses Bourbon as the new 5,000-square-foot visitor center and gift shop opens in the video above! This is part of a $2.4 million expansion of the distillery property, which has seen significant gains in tourist visits in recent years. Since 2004, visitors to the Four Roses Distillery have increased at approximately 35 percent each year and by… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com congratulates Four Roses for being named “Distiller of the Year for the third year in a row! This is also the fourth time Four Roses has received this award in the last six years. In a special awards ceremony held today at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Four Roses was honored by Whisky Magazine as… Read more »
× While the original Colonel Harland Sanders Sanders would be celebrating 122 years on September 9th, 2012, BourbonBlog.com celebrated with this look-a-like Colonel Bob Thompson on September 8th for his real 83rd Birthday during the Kentucky State BBQ Festival. Bob is former major of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky he best look-a-like, an official spokesperson for Kentucky Fried… Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com joins Kentucky State BBQ Festival Founder Brad Simmons and learns what makes this BBQ Festival unlike any other in the country! Attendees actually get to taste Championship Quality from famous pitmasters including Carey Bringle, Moe Cason, Shelly Hunt, Craig Kimmel, and Melissa Cookston. At many BBQ festivals and competitions across the country, BBQ… Read more »
× BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer joins Jim Beam 7th Generation Master Distiller Fred Noe and his son Freddie Noe IV in the smokehouse at the house of Jim Beam in Bardstown during Kentucky Bourbon festival 2012. They review the Knob Creek Rye with an on camera tasting and discuss Fred’s new book Beam Straight Up. Joining Jim… Read more »
BourbonBlog.com is proud to present an article from Woodford Reserve Master Distiller Chris Morris on the 200 years of distilling on the site which is now known as Woodford Reserve in Versailles, Kentucky. We invited Chris to prepare this especially for you, our BourbonBlog.com readers.. This past month the Woodford Reserve Distillery celebrated 200 years of… Read more »
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