28 Things - Bourbon

28 Thing Is a blog series in which I will briefly talk about a different thing in my room every day, and post a picture of said item.






February 9th – Bourbon Trail

In the summer of 2007 my Dad and I took a vacation to Mammoth Cave and the Bourbon Trail. The Bourbon Trail is just a mini tour of Bourbon distilleries in Kentucky.* We visited Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey, Heaven Hills, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses. All of the distilleries have a little tour and some have tastings as well, it’s a pretty good little trip though the tours do get repetitive. Buffalo Trace was our favorite tour and Four Roses was our favorite tasting.

Anyway these are two little souvenirs I got a Buffalo Trace, the one on the left is a barrel bung, which is what they hammer in to plug the hole that they fill and empty the barrels of bourbon. (The bourbon is housed for several years to a decade in these giant warehouses full of barrels, it’s really cool actually) The cork on the right is a collectible bottle topper for a bottle of Blanton’s bourbon, made by Buffalo Trace, its supposed to be a top end bourbon, but it wasn’t available at the tasting.



*Link to the Bourbon Trail Info http://www.kybourbontrail.com/