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Bourbon

All about Kentucky’s native spirit — Bourbon

Bourbon News & Notes: Craft Spirits Conference; A. Smith Bowman cask strength; The Goat...

BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 23 July 2021, by Susan Reigler There’s Still Time to Register for the Upcoming Craft Spirits Expo The American Distilling Institute’s Craft Spirits Conference and Vendor Expo will be held...

Bourbon News & Notes: Bourbon Women SIPosium, Dickel Bourbon, and a Black Manhattan

BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 13 August 2021, by Susan Reigler Attend the Bourbon Women SIPosium Virtually The Bourbon Women Association is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since its beginning in Louisville in 2011, it has...

Watch Hill Proper’s American Whiskey Festival comes to Norton Commons on Aug. 26

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/_vol_76_winter_2022/22 Watch Hill Proper, the planet’s largest American whiskey bar, presents its inaugural American Whiskey Festival on Saturday, August 26. The fest takes place outside and in front of Watch Hill Proper, proper, at or near...

The mint julep is legendary, just don’t overthink it

The great thing about mint juleps? Very little about them changes. Following are three items of interest to the mint julep set. I. The simple shooter approach. Hey, Mint Julep. Your One-Day-a-Year Is Here, at The...

Varanese and Susan Reigler will celebrate local “Women of Whiskey”

On Thursday, March 5 Varanese Restaurant will honor Women's History Month by celebrating local "Women of Whiskey" with a cocktail reception, whiskey flight and four-course dinner paired with two additional cocktails. Diners will hear the...

Bourbon News & Notes: Bourbon from Wyoming, rye from Kentucky

BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 11 December 2020, by Susan Reigler Take a Bourbon Trip Out West with Wyoming Whiskey One of the most often repeated misconceptions about bourbon is that it must be made...

The LEE Initiative’s Maker’s Mark CommUNITY Batch arrives for Giving Tuesday

Here at F&D, we believe that education is good. Consequently, as a refresher, The LEE Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is an acronym for Let’s Empower Employment. When we see a need for more diversity, equity,...

The Bar Belle: “Won’t you let the Mint Julep sit at your lunch table?”

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_81_-_spring_2024/14 Since 2013, the city of Louisville has designated the entirety of April as “Mint Julep Month,” celebrating the famous Bourbon cocktail as well as the arrival of Spring in Kentucky (not to mention a...