Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Kentucky Bourbon Festival tickets (Sept. 16-18, 2022) are on sale now

Tickets for the 2022 Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown, Kentucky (Sept. 16-18, 2022) have gone on sale. The festival returns for its 31st year...

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. Hey, Mint Julep....

Bourbon Capital BBQ Challenge & Distillery Invitational is June 10-11

The inaugural Bourbon Capital BBQ Challenge & Distillery Invitational will take place June 10-11 at the 300-acre Dant Crossing bourbon destination campus in Gethsemane....

IUS presents “Bourbon — An Introduction for the Inquisitive Drinker,” with Susan Reigler

I received this notice from IU Southeast's new Lifelong Learning program, which seems to be picking up where the university's defunct Continuing Education department...
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Bourbon: Top moments from 2021 for a $9 billion industry

In our most recent quarterly print edition (Winter 2021, Vol. 72; copies still available at their usual locations) Sara "The Bar Belle" Havens trekked...

Coming in May: “Bourbon Is My Comfort Food,” a book by Heather Wibbels (The...

In an article from 2020, our bourbon columnist Susan Reigler provides this introduction to Heather Wibbels. The Cocktail Contessa If you are looking to upgrade your...

Amazing and unprecedented, the “Kentucky Bourbon Benefit Raises Over $3 Million for Tornado Relief”

“The outpouring of support, care and love for Western Kentuckians is truly unparalleled in the history of Bourbon. We are forever grateful for the...

The Bar Belle: “How Bourbon Distilleries Unite to Help in Times of Need”

Our print columnist Sara Havens, a.k.a. The Bar Belle, is an award-winning journalist and author who has championed for Louisville's nightlife scene for more...

Friday morning bourbon links from the Bourbon Women, Trouble Bar, the KDA, and more

On May 1, 2020 the first installment of "Bourbon News & Notes," a weekly Friday morning column written by Susan Reigler, appeared here at...

Bourbon News & Notes: Kentucky Peerless releases and The Kitchen Table’s Pink Peppercorn Brown...

BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 26 November, by Susan Reigler A Flurry of End-of-Year Releases from Kentucky Peerless Distilling Company Since its first whiskey...