10-18-2022, 06:25 PM
(08-16-2022, 03:58 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Finally made my first trip to bourbon country this past weekend. Buffalo Trace, Glenn Creek, Castle and Key (most beautiful grounds and most interesting cocktails), Woodford Reserve and Four Roses. Just stuck to the Lexington-ish area this time around but had a great time. Beautiful countryside. BT was the only place we did a tour (even saw Freddie as he passed us on our way out of the Blantons bottling building), and got tastings at a couple of others.
So did you not do the “tour” at Glenn’s Creek? We were down there over the weekend, and if you didn’t do the experience there I HIGHLY recommend it.
It wasn’t a tour, it was literally just a tasting with the owner/master distiller. For about an hour he poured samples and talked about his experiences and philosophies on distilling. I guess it’s for up to 10 guests, but a party of 7 no showed so it was just myself, my wife and a guy visiting from California. At the end of the hour, the third guy bailed and we just shot the shit with the owner for a few and bought some bottles. Then he said “since you guys seem to know what’s up, let me grab some stuff from my private stash”. He came back with one of their sold out limited bottles and a bourbon finished it honey barrels that’s not available yet.
I loved it. Especially since we did Castle & Key right before (which was also great). It was literally like going from a bourbon Disney World to a bourbon punk rock club.
