The Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, the first “tourist distillery” to open as part of Whiskey Row’s renaissance in downtown Louisville, filled its 1,000th barrel on February 1, 2018. The distillery reached this milestone after producing one barrel per day since production began in September 2013, a small output compared to the 1,300 barrels produced per day at Heaven Hill Distillery’s ...
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Buffalo Trace Enjoyed Another Record-Setting Tourist Year
Bourbon sales continue to grow, and bourbon tourism is growing at an equally rapid pace, at least for Buffalo Trace Distillery. In 2017, this National Historic Landmark Distillery set a new record for visitation, ending the year with 201,491 guests. This is an increase of 18% in visitation over last calendar year, and a total increase of 287% since 2010. ...
Read More »Kentucky Loosens Vintage Spirits Trade
By Richard Thomas Plenty is wrong with the secondary market. Provenance is unheard of, so fakes are rampant, and despite this prices are often inflated. Yet above those problems is the plain fact that selling liquor without a license is illegal. Since you can’t reform a black market, so long as that was the case none of the other problems ...
Read More »Spending The Holidays At A Distillery
By Richard Thomas A distillery is in essence a booze-making factory, and like blue-collar industrial enterprises everywhere, they often close on the Holidays if not for the duration of the Holidays. Yet as tourism has become a larger part of the business of many distilleries, this isn’t quite as true as it used to be. The distillery itself might not ...
Read More »Bourbon & Beyond Expands On Kentucky’s Whiskey Festivals
By April Manning When Louisville celebrates bourbon, they definitely go beyond expectations. Louisville, KY honored National Bourbon Heritage Month by throwing bourbon a party at the Bourbon and Beyond Festival and inviting everyone to partake. The group at Bourbon and Beyond provided the perfect combination of bourbon, bourbon education, and ways to enjoy drinking bourbon, i.e. with abundant food and ...
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