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Kentucky Bourbon Trail Website Earns First-Place in Tourism Marketing Competition

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BourbonBlog.com congratulates The Kentucky Distillers’ Association on their first-place honors for a website that promotes the KDA’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail® tour of distilleries! The Kentucky Tourism Council presented its Traverse Awards for excellence in tourism marketing Oct. 19 during the Kentucky Tourism Industry Annual Conference in Covington. A panel of marketing, public relations and tourism… Read more »

2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games Opening Ceremonies

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× BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer reports from the 2010 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games Opening Ceremonies, Lexington, Kentucky in the video episode above. In the video below, Tom shows you the “Bourbon side” of the World Equestrian Games from the Maker’s Mark and Jim Beam hospitality tent. Highlights of our coverage include: William Shatner riding in on… Read more »

Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve Review

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Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve is a new Bourbon by Jim Beam which BourbonBlog.com is among the first to review in the world. The suggested retail will be around $40, which is about $10 more than the original Knob Creek. The release date is projected to ship in January 2011 and be on shelves by… Read more »

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Tour Shatters Passport Record

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The Kentucky Distillers’ Association tells BourbonBlog.com that the famous Kentucky Bourbon Trail® distillery tour has already surpassed last year’s record number of visitors who toured all of its legendary distilleries and completed the souvenir “Passport” program. “Breaking last year’s record is pretty impressive,” Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association tells BourbonBlog.com. “But we’re… Read more »

The Kentucky Bourbon Festival begins!

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The 19th Annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival is underway and BourbonBlog.com will be here for our 6th year in a row! No other media outlet has provided the unique video coverage as we have. Below, we are giving you a look back at some of last year’s videos and also showing you the many organizations, nonprofits… Read more »

Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve Review Coming

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Beam Global Spirits has confirmed to BourbonBlog.com that they will release a new Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve. We will give you our advance review of Knob Creek Single Barrel Reserve soon. Like the original, this Knob Creek will be 9-years-old, but will be bottled at a significantly higher proof, 120° (60% alcohol) vs the… Read more »

Celebrate Labor Day On The Kentucky Bourbon Trail

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Kick off September and “Bourbon Heritage Month” in the Bluegrass with a Labor Day holiday visit to one of the Commonwealth’s signature Bourbon distilleries. “We’re extremely proud of the hard-working men and women who have crafted the world’s finest Bourbons for generations,” Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association tells BourbonBlog.com. “We can’t think… Read more »

First Lady Jane Beshear unveils new highway signs to mark ‘Kentucky Bourbon Trail’ and delivers Governor’s proclamation of ‘Bourbon Heritage Month’

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First Lady Jane Beshear today unveiled the first of a series of brown highway signs that will direct visitors along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to the famed distillers of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. “Today we celebrate a signature industry that has helped define Kentucky’s unique heritage for more than 200 years,” Mrs. Beshear said during… Read more »