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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]