By Richard Thomas Almost a century before Louisville, Kentucky became the Derby City it was the Bourbon City, and for as long as Louisville has been America’s bourbon town, it has also been the hometown of Evan Williams. That little piece of historical fact makes it very appropriate that the first of what will eventually be a handful of tourist-oriented ...

Micro-distillery Brings Whiskey-Making to NYC By Kurt Maitland For centuries, when the world speaks of or thinks about New York City, they think of Manhattan first. It’s the home of the Empire State Building, Wall Street, and Broadway. Yet New York City is really five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island), and each waxes and wanes in popularity. ...

*After 240 years, Buffalo Trace Distillery is excited to announce it has been named a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior. Joining the elite ranks of such American icons as the Alamo, the Empire State Building, and the White House, Buffalo Trace Distillery is now one of only 2,577 National Historic Landmarks in the United ...

By Richard Thomas In my experience, scenic watercourses surrounded with leafy green trees are part of the setting at many a distillery tour, but the bucolic splendor of George Dickel’s Cascade Hollow is in a class of its own. Whether you approach the distillery from the north or south, the route winds its way down a little country road alongside ...

By Richard Thomas When I went to explore the ruins of the Old Pepper Distillery on Manchester Street in Lexington, Kentucky, I was both pleased and surprised to discover that someone had opened a micro-distillery in what had been Old Pepper’s barrel house, appropriately named The Barrel House. Located only a few minutes drive from the Town Branch Distillery and ...