BBQ and Bourbon

The Bowling Green Daily News restaurant reviewer has been on a tour of local BBQ joints. Loving’s One Stop B-B-Q was disappointing.
Here is a summary of the review (read complete review at link.)
Loving’s One Stop B-B-Q has a storied history in Bowling Green, and was one place that always came up as a “must-visit” joint. [...]

The Munfordville Tourism Commission announced the Buffalo Crossing BBQ Cook Off will be October 15-16.  This event has been officially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS). More than $11,000 in prize money, including a grand champion prize of $3,000.
The local event will also have vendors who sell barbecue-related items.
“We’re really looking forward to [...]

The Lane Report offers these thoughts about the barbecue found at Knockum Hill in Herndon, Kentucky.
“I’m the only guy around here who still makes barbecue the old-fashioned way,” said William “Oscar” Hill, owner of Knockum Hill Bar B Q, located just past the four-way stop and post office in the heart of tiny Herndon. “The [...]

The Bourbon Candy Bar is here!
George T. Stagg Bourbon is used in the making in this new bourbon candy bar.
Stagg is 141.8 proof bourbon and renowned and loved for perfectly balancing intensity and finesse.  It is made in small batches that are released to the public only twice a year.
When the candy-maker [...]

Barren River Lake State Resort Park brings back Buffalo Night  on Feb. 6, 2010.
Buffalo Night is a time to go back in history, when the buffalo roamed the barrens of south central Kentucky.
The Driftwood Restaurant will be offering a buffet with an assortment of buffalo dishes including carved steamship rounds, bourbon BBQ [...]

Food writer and chef Fred Thompson has thus served up a definitive selection of recipes to utilize and improvise on what he refers to as “the Classic American Spirit”.
Bourbon offers readers a brief history of the Kentucky legend, giving careful attention to thes mystique that seem to surrounds the spirit.
General tips and trick on preparing [...]

The study released today by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association, says distillers help create about 10,000 jobs with an annual payroll of $442 million and generate $125 million in taxes each year.
The study was conducted by Dr. Paul Coomes, an economist at the University of Louisville.
“Bourbon and other distilling is truly a signature Kentucky industry “We [...]

The Shirt of the week over at LOLmart Shirts is the OMG WTF BBQ.
OMG = Oh. My. God.
WTF = What The Fu**
BBQ = The food, the event, or the appliance involved in slow-cooking delicious yumyums over a smoldering fire for a long period of time. Hopefully with a cold beverage in hand and some good [...]

Mark’s Feedstore is a small restaurant chain that has a few locations in Louisville. The meal was the Baby Back Rib dinner with coleslaw and fried corn on the cob. The food was really good and the Mark’s special Barbecue dipping sauces. The BBQ ribs were falling off of the bone and the dinner that [...]

Rare Breed Distilling LLC, which produces the Wild Turkey brands of bourbon whiskey, plans to build a 20,000 space barrel storage warehouse at its Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced.
The warehouse will be used to store and age bourbon.
The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority recently approved the project for up to [...]