{"id":455,"date":"2008-10-18T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-10-18T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T22:18:35","slug":"bourbon-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Bourbon – Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spent a wonderful day touring Buffalo Trace distillery today with Jennifer.\u00c2\u00a0 The distillery in Frankfort, KY is nestled along the Kentucky river and is very picturesque.\u00c2\u00a0 On the tour we visited Warehouse C where they are aging Buffalo Trace, Van Winkle’s and some of their experimental barrels.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we went to the Benton’s Bottling hall where they bottle their products.\u00c2\u00a0 After explaining the details of the bottling process our guide took part of the group, ourselves included on a special tour of the rear of the distillery.<\/p>\n

In the rear of the distillery we saw the grain delivery areas and one of the large Vodka stills.\u00c2\u00a0 Then we went to the Mash room where they were fermenting batches of upcoming spirits.\u00c2\u00a0 Next we were taken through their small batch still room where they produce special spirit runs for one off customers.\u00c2\u00a0 Following that we were introduced to the big daddy still.\u00c2\u00a0 A column still does the first distillation, then the spirits are further distilled in pot still to produce the final unaged product “White Dog”.\u00c2\u00a0 We were lucky enough to get to sample a bit of this White Dog and I must say it was very good.\u00c2\u00a0 You could really taste the corn back notes and despite its high proof it was still quite smooth.\u00c2\u00a0 The final step in our tour was the tasting room where we sampled the distilleries vodka (Rain), Buffalo Trace’s Bourbon and Eagle Rare, one of my personal favorites.\u00c2\u00a0 Overall the tour was fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 Below are a number of pictures from the day.<\/p>\n

As for the week of Bourbon experimentation, it was a nice refresher on America’s native spirit.\u00c2\u00a0 This is certainly not the last we’ll speak it.\u00c2\u00a0 Until then keep trying different Bourbons there are a lot out there and all have something special to offer.<\/p>\n

\"Blueprint<\/a>
Blueprint of a Sazerac in the Buffalo Trace gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Inside<\/a>
Inside Warehouse C<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Grain<\/a>
Grain Silos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mash<\/a>
Mash Fermenter - 92,000 Gallons!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Small<\/a>
Small Batch Still - Combination Pot + Column<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Column<\/a>
Column of the Big Daddy Still<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thunder<\/a>
Thunder the Buffalo Monitors the Still Output<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Warehouse<\/a>
Warehouse Window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Barrels<\/a>
Barrels on the Bottom Level of the Warehouse - "Old Pappy Lives Down Here" as our Tour Guide Said<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spent a wonderful day touring Buffalo Trace distillery today with Jennifer.\u00c2\u00a0 The distillery in Frankfort, KY is nestled along the Kentucky river and is very picturesque.\u00c2\u00a0 On the tour we visited Warehouse C where they are aging Buffalo Trace, Van Winkle’s and some of their experimental barrels.\u00c2\u00a0 From there we went to the Benton’s Bottling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,203],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrap-up","tag-bourbon","tag-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}