Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Gin made The Bar Belle say that? Find out in the Summer 2022 edition...

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2022_vol._74_/14 (Hip Hops will return next Wednesday) Sara "The Bar Belle" Havens experienced Darling's, the only gin bar in Bourbon Country, and rekindled her romance with the botanical spirit. Her column is "The Wonderfully Weird Ways of...

Copper & Kings? Heron today, Constellation Brands tomorrow

Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. has come a long way since the winter of 2014. Doesn't it seem as if the distillery has been here far longer than six years? https://foodanddine.com/copper-kings-brandy-distillery-to-open-in-butchertown-this-spring/ Monday's news about the...

Edibles & Potables: Sunday headline potpourri

Enjoy your eating and drinking, life is about variety and I’m certainly not going to stop drinking wine or cocktails. If you say "I’m into wine and don’t like beer," that’s like saying, "I...

Afternoon Archive: Setting up your home (improvement) bar

It's the 2020 Derby Week that wasn't (see y'all on Labor Day weekend, we hope), and we're dipping into past issues of Food & Dining Magazine. Tim and Lori Laird's home bar setup advice...

Kentucky’s distillers, wineries and breweries may now ship directly to consumers

The Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) shares encouraging news from the Kentucky General Assembly last week: the successful passage of House Bill 415, the producer-only direct-to-consumer shipping bill. KDA APPLAUDS PASSAGE OF HB 415 SHIPPING BILL...

Distillers are contributing to the COVID-19 fight with hand sanitizer production

During World War II, 15% of American beer production was set aside for the troops. In 2020, Louisville-area distilleries like Starlight and Rabbit Hole are helping fight COVID-19 by using their equipment to bolster...

Amaro — Anarchy in a Glass

The typical well-stocked backbar in Louisville – or anywhere in America, for that matter – gives off an amber glow as stately and authoritative as the burnished chambers of an old-school attorney. As evidence...

Rye Not? — The Other American Whiskey

Bourbon drinkers are aware that their favorite whiskey, while distilled from a fermented grain recipe that is mostly made up of corn, usually also contains a fairly large percentage of rye, as well as...

Last call for Mr. Lee’s Lounge is Saturday evening, December 28

For a succinct sentence-long review with approval impishly implied, it's hard to touch this enticing appraisal of Mr. Lee's Lounge: "Speakeasy meets upscale cocktail bar shrouded in a cloak of darkness." From darkness to subdued...

Locust Grove’s fascinating Farm Distillery Project

The noted spirits writer Lew Bryson once pondered whether it was something in Kentucky's water that caused distillers to put down roots in the vicinity. Bryson spoke to Denny Potter, distiller at Heaven Hill. Potter,...