Leaving Spartan, it was about a three hour drive to Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in Anderson, IN, our first stop heading south along I-69. For those of you who are not sure how to find casinos that allow …
Below are extensive details of our Bourbon Trail distillery visits. For a brief summary review visit this blog post. ★★★★★ Jim Beam Distillery, Clermont, KY Tour Days/Times/Duration: Monday-Saturday every half hour from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. EST, except 11:30 …
In our last post, we detailed all the reasons the Kentucky Bourbon Trail is worth visiting. In this post, we give you our high level assessment of each distillery. All are worthwhile visiting although we thought some provided a richer …
Barrels are made of Staves. Before I visited the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, if I had heard the word stave, my initial reaction would be “huh, what the heck is a stave? Misspelling of Stove?” Perhaps anyone who does woodworking (like …
Even if you don’t drink or just don’t like Bourbon, read on! To sum up a Bourbon Trail adventure, it really doesn’t matter whether you drink or don’t drink, whether you love or hate bourbon, whether you’re in the mood …
Before we were ready to say goodbye to Kentucky, we spent another day of touring. Not to worry I’m not going to bore you with more bourbon babblins! Instead we had heard about another very interesting tour – the Toyota …
Watching the big huge barges go through the Markland Locks was so cool! We’ve been to other locks and have watched pleasure boats and huge tankers but nothing like this! After exploring downtown Rising Sun in the morning (4/24), we …
In planning our stop at Taylorsville, we weren’t aware that we were quite near what is known as the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. We did know that Jim Beam had a distillery in KY but had no idea how many other …
We had decided to take the 8:45 a.m. Historic Tour on Wednesday, April 19th so we were on our way early that morning. We allowed extra time so we could stop for breakfast at the Crystal Coffee Shop at the …
Tuesday, the 16th, was supposed to be clear and partly sunny but that never happened. We had thought about taking the early Historic Tour but I had checked on the website and it looked like the tour was sold out …
