BourbonI HEART Tour Brought to you by StuffAndyMakes.com 2013 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR Ha! That sign says, “Tail.” CONTENTS Schedule .............................................................................................................................. 3 Map ..................................................................................................................................... 4 Hotel Booking Checklist ...................................................................................................... 5 Bourbon To-Drink List ......................................................................................................... 6 Andy’s Mini Bourbon Lesson .............................................................................................. 7 Statue of Booker Noe at the Jim Beam Distillery Page 2 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR SCHEDULE Thursday, Sept. 19 Sunday, Sept. 22 Tours: Jim Beam, Louisville Slugger Tours: Heaven Hill, Willett, Maker’s Factory. Drinks/Food: Down One Mark. Bourbon Bar. Friday, Sept. 20 Monday, Sept. 23 Tours: Buffalo Trace, Woodford Head home. Rest. Liver recovery. See Reserve, Town Branch. Dinner/ you next year! Drinking in Lexington. Saturday, Sept. 21 Tuesday, Sept. 24 Tours: Wild Turkey, Four Roses. This day for rent. Bourbon Festival!!! Dinner and bourbon flights at Old Talbott Tavern. Maybe a ghost tour? NINE Distillery Tours! Bonus Stuff but the drive isn’t too terrible. This will be a trip to remember and Since we’re in Louisville that first This year, I figgered we’d get to brag about. You will see NINE day, it seems appropriate to tour the hotels along the way so we wouldn’t different distilleries in rapid succession Louisville Slugger factory, no? You can have to drive back and forth and way over the long bourbon weekend. purchase a customized bat to out and back for certain tours. The route for the tour has been commemorate your 2013 bourbon Thursday, our first night, we stay in designed to maximize time at the adventure. I know I will. Louisville. Friday night we stay in distilleries without rushing us around There is a new speakeasy in Lexington. Saturday night we stay in and tiring us out. Louisville called, “Down One Bourbon Bardstown, and on Sunday night we’re Jim Beam is about half-way Bar” and it got excellent reviews online back in Louisville so it’s easy to get to between Louisville and Bardstown. To from some of the bourbon bloggers. the airport early, in case some of the make it easy for everyone to hang out So, why not have dinner and drinks Arizonans want to get to work by 9:30 together (Arizona contingent and there on our first night to prime our AM, thanks to timezone zaniness. Nashville crew), it made more sense to livers for the long bourbon weekend get that one out of the way first so that ahead? at the end of the tour, the Nashville Saturday night at the Bourbon troupe could hit Maker’s Mark and Festival means dinner and flights of then head home if they wanted, since bourbon at the Old Talbott Tavern. they’d be well south of Bardstown at Abraham Lincoln ate and stayed that distillery. there and the burgoo is AWESOME! I Evan Williams is on the official list think it’s haunted, as well. Bonus. of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, but it Hotel Hopping looks like their new visitor center in Last year, Dan and Ritch and I Louisville is not going to be open until stayed at a hotel in Elizabethtown, Fall, so we may not get our 2013 southwest of Bardstown. We had to Bourbon Trail Passports completely travel back and forth between the filled out. Sorry. two towns each day. Kinda tedious, Page 3 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR I Heart Bourbon Trail Map Thursday, Sept. 19 Friday, Sept. 20 Saturday, Sept. 21 Sunday, Sept. 22 A Louisville Int’l Airport F Buffalo Trace K Wild Turkey P Heaven Hill 600 Terminal Dr. 113 Great Buffalo Trace 1417 Versailles Road 1311 Gilkey Run Road Louisville, KY 40209 Frankfort, KY Lawrenceburg, KY 40342 Bardstown, KY 40004 B Jim Beam G Woodford Reserve L Four Roses Q Willett 526 Happy Hollow Rd. 7855 McCracken Pike 1224 Bonds Mill Road 1869 Loretto Road Clermont, KY 40110 Versailles, KY 40383 Lawrenceburg, KY 40342 Bardstown, KY 40004 C Louisville Slugger H Town Branch M Kentucky Bourbon Festival R Maker’s Mark 800 West Main St. 401 Cross Street Court Square 3350 Burkes Spring Rd. Louisville, KY 40202 Lexington, KY 40508 Bardstown, KY 40004 Loretto, KY 40037 D Down One Bourbon Bar I Lexington Dinner Place N Old Talbott Tavern S Louisville Marriott East 321 Main St. TBD 107 W. Steph. Foster Ave. 1903 Embassy Sq. Blvd. Louisville, KY 40202 Lexington, KY 40508 Bardstown, KY 40004 Louisville, KY 40299 E Louisville Marriott East J SpringHill Suites O Howard Johnson Inn 1903 Embassy Sq. Blvd. 863 S. Broadway 1875 New Haven Rd. Louisville, KY 40299 Lexington, KY 40504 Bardstown, KY 40004 Page 4 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR TO-DO NAME PHONE/DATE RATE Louisville Marriott East 502.491.1184 ❏ 1903 Embassy Square Blvd. Thurs., Sept. 19 & $164/night ($82 each) Louisville, Kentucky 40299 Sun., Sept. 22 SpringHill Suites (by Marriott) 866.538.0351 $104/night ($52 each) ❏ 863 S Broadway Fri., Sept. 20 Lexington, KY 40504 Howard Johnson Inn 866.925.1058 ❏ 1875 New Haven Rd $85/night ($43 each) Bardstown, KY, 40004 Sat., Sept. 21 The Concept in the East End of Louisville The idear here is to pair up featuring Charr'd Restaurant to save some coin for more and Bourbon themed important things, like, say, amenities. ...Charr'd, a full bourbon and, oh, I dunno, service restaurant, offers a bourbon. To keep the logistics variety of breakfast, lunch, and simple, if we all get rooms in dinner options. The Bar the same hotels along the trail, features a stop on the Urban there will be fewer intoxicated Bourban Trail.” cats to herd. If you want to They told me over the bunk alone, that’s cool. Book phone they have something away. Makes no nevermind. like 127 different bourbons on For your convenience... hand. SCORE! To make this as painless SpringHill Suites as possible, the hotels are “...A breath of fresh air. listed above along with the Just miles from the Bluegrass phone numbers and dates you Airport (LEX), minutes from need for booking. I threw in the Downtown Lexington or the addresses and rates as bonus University of Kentucky, this number 14 or something. smart and stylish all-suite hotel Might be 15. offers a fresh perspective that As another bonus, yet, still, turns everyday trips into also, you get little swanky, memorable experiences.” shadowed checkboxes so that Howard Johnson Inn you can easily check off the Eh. What can I say? It’s a hotels as you book them. HoJo in a tiny town in the Louisville Marriott East middle of Kentucky. At least it’s “The only 4-Diamond, in Bardstown near the festival, Bourbon themed hotel located FWIW. Page 5 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR Bourbon To-Drink List So many bourbons, so little time This page is to help you keep track of all of the bourbons you will have had by the end of your 2013 I Heart Bourbon Tour. This is by no means an exhaustive list of bourbons, of course, but it’s a good start and a way to brag to your friends that you’ve been around in bourbon circles. (sb = small batch, sr = single barrel, w = wheated) ❏ 1792 Ridgemont Reserve (sb) ❏ Henry McKenna ❏ Pappy Van Winkle's Family ❏ Ancient Age ❏ Henry McKenna (sr) Reserve 20-year ❏ Angel’s Envy ❏ Hirsch (sb) Reserve ❏ Pappy Van Winkle's Family ❏ Baker’s (sb) ❏ Hirsch 21-year Reserve 23-year ❏ Basil Hayden’s (sb) ❏ Hudson Baby Bourbon ❏ Parker’s Heritage Collection ❏ Bernheim (w) ❏ Hudson Four Grain ❏ Prichard’s Double Barreled ❏ Black Maple Hill (sb) ❏ I. W. Harper ❏ Pure Kentucky XO (sb) ❏ Blanton’s (sr) ❏ J. T. S. Brown ❏ Rebel Reserve ❏ Blue State Bourbon ❏ J. W. Dant ❏ Rebel Yell ❏ Booker’s (sb) ❏ Jefferson’s ❏ Red Stag ❏ Bourbon Supreme ❏ Jefferson’s Presidential Select ❏ Red State Bourbon ❏ Buck 8-year (17-year) ❏ Rittenhouse 21-year ❏ Buffalo Trace ❏ Jefferson’s Presidential Select ❏ Rock Hill Farms (sr) ❏ Buffalo Trace Experimental (18-year) ❏ Rowan’s Creek (sb) ❏ Bulleit Bourbon ❏ Jim Beam 4-year ❏ Russell’s Reserve ❏ Bushmill’s ❏ Jim Beam 8-year ❏ Russell’s Reserve (sr) ❏ Cabin Still ❏ Johnny Drum ❏ Sam Houston ❏ Chestnut Farms ❏ Kentucky Gentleman ❏ T. W. Samuels ❏ Copper City ❏ Kentucky Tavern ❏ Tom Moore ❏ Corner Creek ❏ Kentucky Vintage (sb) ❏ Town Branch ❏ Daniel Stewart ❏ Knob Creek (sb) ❏ Van Winkle 12-year (Lot B) ❏ David Nicholson 1843 ❏ Knob Creek (sr) ❏ Very Old Barton ❏ Eagle Rare 17-year (sr) ❏ Larceny ❏ Vintage Bourbon ❏ Early Times 354 ❏ Maker’s 46 (sb, w) ❏ W.L. Weller (w) ❏ Echo Springs ❏ Maker’s Mark (sb, w) ❏ W.L. Weller Special Reserve ❏ Elijah Craig 12-year (sb) ❏ Mattingly & Moore ❏ Wathen’s (sr) ❏ Elijah Craig 18-year (sr) ❏ McAfee’s Benchmark ❏ Wild Turkey ❏ Elijah Craig 20-year (sr) ❏ Michter’s 25-year (sr) ❏ Wild Turkey 81 ❏ Elijah Craig Barrel Strength ❏ Michter’s US 1 (sb) ❏ Wild Turkey 101 ❏ Elmer T. Lee (sr) ❏ Noah’s Mill (sb) ❏ Wild Turkey’s Kentucky Spirit ❏ Evan Williams ❏ Old Bardstown ❏ Wild Turkey Rare Breed ❏ Evan Williams 1783 ❏ Old Charter 8-year ❏ Wild Turkey Russel’s Reserve ❏ Evan Williams Bottled-In-Bond ❏ Old Charter 10-year ❏ Willett Family Reserve (sr) ❏ Evan Williams (sr) ❏ Old Crow ❏ Willett Pot Still Reserve (sr) ❏ Ezra Brooks ❏ Old Ezra 101 ❏ Woodford Reserve (sb) ❏ Ezra Brooks (sr) ❏ Old Fitzgerald (w) ❏ Woodford Reserve Double Oaked ❏ Fighting Cock ❏ Old Forester ❏ Woodford Reserve Master’s Coll. ❏ Four Roses ❏ Old Grand-Dad ❏ Yellowstone ❏ Four Roses (sb) ❏ Old Heaven Hill ❏ Four Roses (sr) ❏ Old Pogue (sb) ❏ George T. Stagg ❏ Old Rip Van Winkle (w) ❏ Hancock’s President’s ❏ Old Rip Van Winkle Handmade Reserve (sr) ❏ Old Taylor ❏ Heaven Hill ❏ Pappy Van Winkle (w) Page 6 2013 I HEART BOURBON TOUR Bourbon Cool stuff to know There is so much ✓ Mash bill is at least 51% proof will lower.