Bachelor weekend on the bourbon trail booked!

There is a company in Louisville that specializes in getting you there and back. Pretty nice not to have to worry about driving. Mint Julep Tours.

You are skipping Maker's Mark?

Tours

If you were to add one to your list, Maker's Mark is the one to add. Problem is it's a good 60-90 minute drive from those distilleries on your list, and probably a good hour from Louisville.

It's in Loretto.

I guess Maker's Mark is well out of the way if you just going to those on Saturday. Not sure, it is a nice tour and gift shop. Beautiful place they have there. I hear great things about the Woodford Reserve tour. I have never been myself.

As far as things to do on Sunday? Check to see if Louisville Slugger museum is open. Maybe the Muhammed Ali Center or Frasier History Museum are all downtown.

Restaurants - Mussel and Burger Bar, Hammerheads, Proof on Main (Faincy), Butchertown Grocery, Jeff Ruby's (Steak $$$$)

Somehow didn’t see the responses on the search function. Makers for sure it looks like.

From a trip I made in April:


My buddies and I spent a long weekend in Louisville and Friday one day was spent on hunting down bourbon. LSUcdro recommended Mint Julep Tours and John was recommended as our driver if he was available. I talked with Jeannie who books the tours and she was able to put together a custom package for the day. It was explained that we wanted something unique. We knew good pours were not something commonly handed out for tastings so we worked with that we were delt.

We started the day at Buffalo Trace, had about an hour tour of basic bourbon stuff and the history of the distillery. We wanted the hard hat tour, but it had sold out prior to us even picking the date of our trip. The tastings was Eagle Rare and Buffalo trace with some white dog thrown in for good measure. John was able to walk us around a little of the property that the tour did visit. It was a good tour to start the day.

Second stop was 4 Rose for just a tasting and to hit the gift shop. All they had was OBSK at the gift shop, it was nothing special and the tasting wasn't much better. The tour guide was not good and John agreed that it was lacking the day we visited.

The next stop was 3 Boys Farm Distillery. They are laying up around 60-80 barrels a year. We didn't make it in the gift shop, only the barn with the operation. The owner is orignally from Lousiana, but he was not in when we visited. They have been around 4-5 years and everything they have is young but pretty tasty. We sampled 4 barrels, some bourbon, some whiskey, all were 119-121 proof and all of them were pretty good. More for the experience I bought a bottle straight from the barrel. It isn't manicured lawns the tasting was great like some of the large distilleries, this place isn't winning any beauty pageants, but I would take this stop over 4 rose.

The last bourbon stop was Jeptha Creed. This is a very new operation, with a lot of attention to detail. Everything here is young juice. They are using an heirloom red butchers corn grown onsite. The owners are a husband/ wife daughter and they were all there. We had a private tasting in the rickhouse. They are laying up 500 barrels a year and making a bunch of vodkas and moonshine to cover expenses till the bourbon has enough time to age. They pulled a corn/rye batch from the barrel. This stuff is young and around 122 proof, drank pretty damn well. We had a blast here and it was a great experience.

For the most part, you don't get to taste any bourbon at the big boys that you can't buy at home...

do the urban bourbon trail in Louisville

when are you going? Churchill Downs might be a place to go visit and see some races

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At Blanton’s they let you actually make a batch of bourbon. You’re on the floor with their workers and you spend time at each “station” to see the process.

Plus you get to drink as much blantons as you want for free. It was awesome.

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That isn't Blanton's (Buffalo Trace Distillery) perhaps you are thinking of Makers Mark?