History in the glass on the menu during De La Torre’s Raventos wine dinner May 22
Louisville diners are treated to lots of wine dinners, but this one appears to be a bit special.
The De La Torre’s (1606 Bardstown Rd.) Raventos wine dinner, set for Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m., will feature Arnau Roca, who is coming from Barcelona as special guest.
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Get your mugs ready for the Highlands Beer Festival Saturday
Some 213 beers from 60 breweries will poured at this weekend’s Highlands Beer Festival, held from 5-9 p.m. inside Mid-City Mall (1250 Bardstown Road).
The Festival is sponsored by the ever-generous and always beer-minded folks at ValuMarket, whose growler offerings are always good. At a similar event in December, 1,030 people came to drink about 150 different beers.
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New brew and two new rums coming out of Lexington
Hey, isn’t this supposed to be bourbon country?
Well, according to at least one company, there’s plenty of room in Kentuckians’ livers for more options.
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Cheers! Falls City brewing opens tasting room Saturday
File this one under… FINALLY!
David Easterling has talked about it for a long time, but come Saturday at noon, the owner of Falls City Beer will open his new tasting room at 545 E. Barrett Ave.
It is not a bar where you can expect to get beer by the glass. According to Easterling, it is a place designed as a stop to familiarize yourself with new Falls City products and get your growlers filled.
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Down One Bourbon Bar hosting Wild Turkey bourbon dinner
Down One Bourbon Bar will host an intimate dinner with Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell Friday, April 18 at 7 p.m.
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Brown-Forman now selling personalized Old Forester by the barrel to the public
For the first time in 40 years, Brown-Forman is selling entire barrels of its iconic Old Forester bourbon to customers who’d like to have, say, 220 bottles labeled as their very own.
Cost: $7,500.
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Great beer and great food, what’s not to like?
Three beer-centric dinners events are slated for next week.
And we’re not talking wings and sports bar pitchers of the pale stuff, people, we’re talking really good stuff: craft beer paired with dinner. Read on and start filling in your calendar.
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Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail lands on National Geographic’s 10 Best Spring Trips for 2013.
So National Geographic has named the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Tour a “Best Spring Trip” for 2013. Well, we’ll be darned—and darned proud.
Seems the yellow-bordered magazine of our youths, the one packed with photographs of mountain peak ascents, exotic wildlife and pics otherwise deemed um, well, unacceptable outside of a strictly educational setting, has the hots for one of Kentucky’s greatest travel treasures.
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Mayan Café goes soft-drink free, dumps sugary sodas
If you want a carbonated soft drink with your dinner, don’t expect to get one at Mayan Café.
Why not? Because co-owners Bruce Ucan and Anne Shadle are as serious about serving fresh drink as much as they are about serving fresh food.
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