BBQ and Bourbon

The annual Wholly Smokers’ Blast will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the restaurant, 123 Opera Alley in Georgetown. Swing Street band will entertain from 5 to 8 p.m. Take a lawn chair to watch, if you don’t want to participate in the dance contest. The menu features ribs, pulled pork and fried fish. Call (859) 948-3851 or (859) 351-9159.

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Like Buffalo Trace bourbon? Like it well enough that you will work for free to help them spruce up the walking trails around the distillery? Buffalo Trace worked with Walk/Bike Frankfort and the Franklin County and Frankfort parks department to create the trails.

Now they need help to make the trails attractive for the people who might be visiting for the World Equestrian Games.

Work days will be held Saturdays, Sundays and Thursdays, between now and Sept. 16, according to a news release from Buffalo Trace.
Work will be done Saturdays, from 8 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.m.; Sundays, from 2 to 6 p.m., and Thursdays from 4 to 7 p.m.

Workers should meet at the trailhead at the back corner of the Building 200 Fair Oaks parking lot, which is located off Lewis Ferry Road. Tools and training will be provided, and participants are asked to wear long-sleeved shirts, gloves and closed-toed shoes, preferably boots. Work will include improving trail pathways, completing ditch bridges, regrading portions of the trails and removing trash.

Chris Chamberlain is the spirits writer for Nashville Scene, a nice gig. Here’s a taste of his column praising Four Roses.

I began to taste my way through the Kentucky Bourbon Trail from the comfort of my own couch. After lots of enjoyable research, I finally came to the conclusion that my favorite bourbon for the money is Four Roses Small Batch. Not too hot at 90 proof, Four Roses Small Batch starts out strong at first taste and mellows to a lovely soft smoothness as the ice melts and the water opens it up. At a retail price of around $29.99 for a fifth, Small Batch is not cheap; but I think it’s a great value for my spirit dollar.

So imagine my excitement when I heard that “Mr. Four Roses” himself Read the rest

Sharp Entertainment, the folks that brought us Man v Food and Food Wars has a casting call for extreme meat lovers.

Do you crave the culture, the people, and traditions that surround all things meat as well? Are you constantly on the hunt for the next big meaty trend out there? Looking to try the latest and greatest way people are acquiring, preparing, serving and chowing down on their meat?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be the star of a new television series.

MALE MEAT-EATING ENTHUSIASTS: Looking to cast males who appear any age and any ethnicity, who fully embrace absolutely everything meat culture has to offer—on and off the plate. Specifically casting foodies who are involved in all sorts of meat-related food sub-cultures, eating rituals or anything that has to do with the creative, fanatic desire to hunt, prepare and eat a variety of meats in a variety of ways.  We are also open to meat loving families and friends (i.e. fathers and sons, best guy friends, brothers, cousins etc).

If interested, please submit your photo and contact information to:meatfanatic@gmail.com

A popular Northern Kentucky restaurant suddenly shuts its doors. A sign up at Walt’s Hitching Post in Fort Wright, Kentucky says “closed temporarily for renovations.”

The restaurant at Madison Pike and Kyles Lane has been there for decades. The news took many customers by surprise. The place is especially known for their BBQ ribs.

“There’s sadness for employees, our customers and the community as well. We have decided to regroup, reassess our business, and remodel,”

said Billy Melton, one of several sisters who have been running the business since their father, Bill, passed away three years ago.

Burrt Travis can brag he’s been coming for nearly fifty years.

“I knew Billy (the patriarch) when he opened it….I’ve had parties here, I’ve brought my family here. My kids came here, now my grandkids come here. It’s going to be a loss for the entire community. There’s nothing else you can say. Everybody’s sad,”

he said.

Travis is the attorney for the Brotherhood Singers, who sing at the place during the week.

Also in the house, Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning and his wife Mary, who’ve enjoyed eating ribs and chicken livers at the restaurant for more than 40 years.

“Bill Melton was a very good friend and the Melton family has been a very good friend of ours for a long, long time and we’re sorry to see that they’re going to be closing down for a while,”

said Bunning.

My good friend Yasemin sent me these two recipes for me to try as an alternative to my normal “Rocks or Water” and Maker’s Mark…

A++ Yasemin!

Summer Breeze

1 part Maker’s Mark

1 part Ginger Ale

A splash of Cointreau

1 orange slice

Directions: Muddle an orange slice in an old-fashioned glass with a splash of Cointreau. Add in equal parts Maker’s Mark Bourbon and ginger ale. Stir gently. Top off with ice.

Char No. 46

Recipe courtesy of Ward III (New York, NY)

2 parts Maker’s 46

Muddled fresh peaches

1 part Averna Amaro

Dash of fresh orange juice

1 egg white

Bitters

Directions: Muddle peach in shaker and add all ingredients except the bitters. Shake vigorously for at least one minute. Strain into a chilled rocks glass. Drizzle bitters on the foam and garnish with fresh peach.

The girl who set the internet ablaze yesterday – and continuing today – by supposedly quitting her job and busting her boss for his internet activities and referring to her as a HPOA (Hot Piece of A**) was the creation of two men who prefer bourbon as their adult beverage of choice.

Leo and John Resig launched Jenny yesterday with this slideshow.

Today they announced their hoax.

On their website they closed with…

We couldn’t have pulled this one off without the help of this adorable young woman. You’ll see in the coming days she’s as smart as she is sexy. Leo and I will now return to our bottles of Jim Beam and enjoy the rest of this wild ride…

Chive On,

John

Later they clarified their position on bourbon, saying…

Leo Resig emailed this comment, which he says he wants attributed to both brothers (I double-checked with him before I published):

“Although we like Jack Daniels whiskey, we prefer Jim Beam because bourbon is better.”

A fire has damaged a famous barbecue eatery in Owensboro, but the owner says he expects to reopen soon.

The Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro reports the Monday afternoon electrical fire at the Moonlite Bar-B-Q Inn was contained to one area.

One of the restaurant’s owners, Ken Bosley, says he hopes to reopen Tuesday.

Firefighters were called to restaurant around 2:25 p.m. CDT when fire was spotted on the side of the building.

Owensboro Fire Chief Steve Mitchell says a meeting room suffered fire damage and the entire building had smoke damage.

The eatery, which opened in 1963, has won awards for its barbecue and has been featured in several national travel publications.

Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., will release the 4th edition of Parker’s Heritage Collection, a limited annual series of rare, aged American Whiskeys that pays tribute to 6th Generation Master Distiller Parker Beam this fall.

The bourbon is a cask-strength, non-chill filtered wheated Bourbon, meaning it uses soft winter wheat instead of rye as the “small grain” to produce a less spicy, rounder Bourbon.

The new release marks the first in the Parker’s Heritage Collection to depart from the traditional Heaven Hill rye-based Bourbon mashbill. Instead of the more commonly used corn/malted barley/rye recipe, the newest edition uses corn, malted barley and Kentucky winter wheat. This recipe was first used Read the rest