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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Q&A With Kevin Ashworth, 610 Magnolia
Executive Chef At One Of Louisville’s Poshest Restaurants Talks Cooking And Bourbon By Richard Thomas Attendant with Kentucky’s Bourbon Boom is the proliferation of whiskey events and festivals, and the latest comer is Louisville’s Bourbon & Beyond. Taking place in the Derby City next weekend, Bourbon & Beyond stands out from other events in the state in that whereas the ...
Read More »Taconic Distillery’s Bourbon Barrel Breakfast Treats
Updated September 7, 2017 By Randall H. Borkus Taconic Distillery (formerly known as Millbrook Distillery) is found in the rolling hills of Dutchess County in the Hudson Valley in New York. That word “taconic” was transliterated as the Taghkanic or Taughannock, meaning “in the trees,” and used as the name of a Lenape chieftain. The founders of Taconic Distillery, Gerald Valenti and Paul “PJ” ...
Read More »Peach And Whiskey Barbecue Chicken Recipe
By Richard Thomas Late last month, our Cooking With Whiskey beat brought a feature on the virtues of using bourbon as an ingredient for cooking out on the 4th of July, along with some suggestions on how to do it from our inventory of recipe plus a pair of well-known barbecue chefs. There is still plenty of summer left, though, ...
Read More »Bourbon Barrel Aged Wine: History Made New Again?
By Michael Cervin Aging wine in bourbon barrels is not a new thing. The practice has been around, though limited, since the late 1800s. These days the resurrection of wine aged in bourbon barrels is promoted as a cutting edge trend, tying into bourbon’s renewed popularity. So does this portend a new wave of wine and bourbon? We culled four ...
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