BBQ and Bourbon

Take the rest of the day and wade through the aisles of your local mega-market and pick up these ingredients to the best turkey stuffing using bourbon you will find.
The recipe takes about 45 minutes to prepare, 45 minutes to bake, serves 24 or fewer!
* 1 pound thick-cut bacon, chopped
* 1 cup butter
* 2 large [...]

Distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail are planning several holiday events.
Here is a look at what’s being offered:
• Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto will hold candlelight tours on Saturday, Dec. 5 and Saturday, Dec. 12. Both will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The distillery also will offer ice skating from noon to 9 p.m. [...]

The Jim Beam distilleries in Frankfort and Clermont, Ky., will begin production of DeKuyper cordials and other spirits now being bottled outside of Kentucky.
The jobs will be added to Beam’s Frankfort operations, where the company also plans to invest more than $28 million to upgrade technology over the next two years, according to the release.
The [...]

Kentucky’s bourbon distillers are pushing the legislature to simplify tasting laws during the next  session.
Bourbon Distillers want the lawmakers to make it easier to to set up bourbon sample booths at conventions, conferences, liquor stores, restaurants and special events, said Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.
“This proposal would update Kentucky’s laws regarding [...]

The food reviewer for the Bowling Green Daily News had little to say good about Hog Wild in Bowling Green.
Hog Wild has been around a while and currently sits in front of Hobby Lobby facing Scottsville Road. I settled in for a BBQ plate special, a pork shoulder plate, a loaded potato and sides. Despite [...]

Give her Bourbon with a twist. If your honey is a Bourbon lover, surprise her with a bottle of Jim Beam® that includes a bracelet around the bottle’s neck, or buy her a set of vintage Jim Beam glasses.

Build a gift basket around her passions. If she likes gardening, create a gift basket full of [...]

Evan Williams is the second largest selling bourbon in the world. Each year they release a special single barrel vintage after the winter holidays. This year, they are releasing the bourbon vintage early.
“We have dumped and individually bottled over 700 ‘honey barrels’ for the 1999 vintage,” explained Master Distiller Parker Beam, “more than any other [...]