BBQ and Bourbon

Danville, KY – Kentucky State BBQ Festival Committee and the Heart of Danville (HOD) are pleased to announce the 2012 event date as September 8 and 9, 2012. The event will be held again in historic Constitution Square Park in Downtown Danville. Festival coordinators Cindy and Brad Simmons are working on plans to help accommodate [...]

We had such a BBQ Blast at 2010′s Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival held at La Venue/The Tunnel, that we had to go back. Every attendee gets a festival logo beer glass that they can get unlimited refills of (you guessed it) beer and bourbon but I was there for the eats! There were over [...]

A trademark Barkhouse Bros. & Co. Gold Dust Kentucky Bourbon bottle, one of the most popular western fifths and one of the finest known to exist, sold for $28,000 in an Internet and catalog auction held Dec. 9-18 by American Bottle Auctions. The bottle was the top seller of the 144 western whiskeys and historical [...]

Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., wants politicians and those who follow them to drink more bourbon so they have distilled a new American Bourbon - Red State(TM) and Blue State(TM) Straight Bourbon Whiskey. Made up of two simultaneous releases of hand-crafted Bourbon from two time “Distiller of the Year” Heaven Hill Distilleries the dueling bottles will create [...]

Almost 6,400 gallons of ethyl alcohol spilled from the back of a Heaven Hill distillery building Saturday afternoon. The Bardstown Fire Department and state and federal environmental regulators treated the spill as a hazardous spill accident and responded similarly. A dike pooled some of the spilled 180-proof alcohol, but a whole lot more spilled down [...]