I recently purchased the book "1000 Places to see before you Die by Patricia Schultz as one of the map of my future. I'm going to try and work my way through the book to see and do as much as I can before the big dirt PAN.
I decided to start a search for items closer to my home in Louisville, "The Bourbon Trail" (page 631 - The elements are not numbered).
I got up very early Friday morning to drive the 45 miles to Bardstown. Pretty soonthat the road was crowded with people traveling for work. I noticed that while they were traveling in the direction of misery, I was going to drink bourbon. Life is suddenly good.
Pull in Bardstown struck me that I really did not know where to go. So I stopped at the town square and a map of the distilleries around Bardstown. Reading the board I learned that more than 50 acres in Nelson County. I just looked for the nearest distillery, which was found to be Heaven Hill, and ledover.
The first thing I saw in the sky Hill made me laugh. On the door was a sticker announcing that the sky Hill was featured in "1000 places to see before you die." What a great way to start my research!
I arrived at Heaven Hill in 09:45 and I learned that the visit would begin at 10:00. I signed up and looked around for the exhibition space of time.
The first event of the tour was a 13-minute film in the history of Bourbon and Heaven Hilloperation of the distillery today. We then headed across the street to a storage building and walked through the reeds.
We were not allowed to take pictures for fear of cameras and sparks the beginning of a fire. They are understandably afraid of fire had one of the worst fires in the history of the field on 07/11/1996. The plant was almost completely destroyed and several warehouses of the company were completely destroyed. More than 90,000gallons of alcohol were lost. I remember the fire on television at this time. The most vivid memory I have is watching the burning whiskey pouring a hill and turn another store.
There are about 20 of these huge stores are all 7 overlapping planes and order, left to right and from top to bottom with barrels of whiskey.
There have been at the production area, but told us everything about the production of whiskey, when we saw the beautiful grounds.
We concludedtour with a tasting room to form a bourbon barrel. We tried two Bourbons, 10 years, Evan Williams and Elijah Craig 18. Now I'm not a big drinker of bourbon, but you can definitely tell the difference between the two. The Bourbon was much smoother and easier for the throat.
After leaving Heaven Hill walked the streets of downtown Bardstown and took a bite to eat at the Old Talbott Tavern before returning to the real world.
Ieasy mark closed this item, but I want to go back and some other distillery tour and maybe take a friend or two. Probably.
Here are some interesting facts and figures I learned:
Heaven Hill Bourbon is aged for a minimum of four years in new charred white oak barrels.
Elijah Craig Bourbon is available in 12 years or 18 years variants.
Bourbon is aged longer, the flavor takes the forest.
Carbonized caramel woodenslowly dissolve in the rest of Whiskey.
Heaven Hill Distilleries Carbon Bourbon filter all their prior to bottling, a process that purifies the product and "soft style" Single Sky Hill Bourbon easy to drink, either directly or with your favorite mixer.
Heaven Hill Distilleries in December 2002 in the United States filled 4.5-millionth new charred white oak barrels with fine Kentucky bourbon. For a better idea that that volume of Bourbonrepresents, consider the following:
2,400 miles from White oak casks.
385,000 hectares of maize.
38.5 million bushels of wheat harvest.
12.8 million tons of cereals such as rye and barley.
385 million gallons of Bourbon.
160.5 million cases of Bourbon.
1.9 billion bottles of Bourbon.
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