Chocolate Mint Julep Cookie Recipe from Maker’s Mark Distillery’s Toll Gate Cafe

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Chocolate Mint Julep Cookie Recipe from Maker’s Mark Distillery’s Toll Gate Cafe

If you’ve been to the Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky, you might been to their Toll Gate Cafe. Maker’s Mark has given BourbonBlog.com this recipe for one of our favorite treats there.  Join us for our special video tour of Maker’s Mark in the video below this recipe, and check our more bourbon recipes… Read more »

Mexican Beers Reviewed

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Mexican Beers Reviewed

We review Sol, Negra Modelo Dark, Pacífico, and Spain’s Estrella Damm in the video below along with some Spanish music and “hasta el culo”

.Maker’s Mark Holiday Candlelight Tours

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.Maker’s Mark Holiday Candlelight Tours

Maker’s Mark Annual Holiday Tour this year is scheduled to feature an ice skating rink, a snow machine and other wintertime activities. As all the Maker’s tours, this one is also free with the special time of 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EST on each of the scheduled nights of Saturday, December 5 and 12,… Read more »

Parker’s Heritage “Golden Anniversary” Edition Review

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Parker’s Heritage “Golden Anniversary” Edition Review

BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer and Firefly Southern Grill Co-Owner Joshua Armstrong review the 2009 Parker’s Heritage “Golden Anniversary” Edition from Heaven Hill Distilleries in the episode below. Heaven Hill Master Distiller Parker Beam’s 50 years of bourbon making are celebrated in one bottle containing bourbon from each of his five decades. This rare marriage of whiskeys… Read more »

Heaven Hill Distilleries Captures “U.S. Whisky Distiller of the Year” For The Second Consecutive Year at Whisky Magazine’s 2009 U.S. Icons of Whisky Presentation

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Heaven Hill Distilleries Captures “U.S. Whisky Distiller of the Year” For The Second Consecutive Year at Whisky Magazine’s 2009 U.S. Icons of Whisky Presentation

BourbonBlog.com congratulates Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc., the nation’s largest independent family-owned and operated distilled spirits producer and marketer, for being voted the best distiller in the United States for the second consecutive time during the presentation of Whisky Magazine’s U.S. Icons of Whisky America.  The Icons of Whisky “celebrate the people and places behind the… Read more »

Bourbon Turkey from a Turkey Expert and Podcast

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Bourbon Turkey from a Turkey Expert and Podcast

Renee Ferguson, Cookbook author, guest speaker, and “Turkey Diva” joins us on BourbonBlog.com. As a former Butterball expert, Renee has appeared on the FOOD NETWORK’s “Throwdown!” with Bobby Flay, in Southern Living and  I recently I did an interview with her our sister website Tripodder.com, listen to this podcast below now! Renee also shares her… Read more »

Official Cocktail of Black Friday with America’s First Bottled Bourbon – Old Forester

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Official Cocktail of Black Friday with America’s First Bottled Bourbon – Old Forester

With Black Friday approaching, our friends at Old Forester, America’s First Bottled Bourbon, tell us they have created the “Official Cocktail of Black Friday.”  If you are going to be the FIRST shopper out the door in the morning hitting those Black Friday sales, then be FIRST person home in the afternoon who has their… Read more »

Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience Contest Finals at Soho Mews with Esquire Magazine by Matt Capucilli

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Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience Contest Finals at Soho Mews with Esquire Magazine by Matt Capucilli

Arriving at the penthouse at the Soho Mews building in downtown New York City, I speak briefly with two attractive ladies working the front door and I follow a courtyard to a solitary elevator ride. At the top floor I’m quickly greeted with a classic Woodford Manhattan cocktail, and the first sip smoothly welcomes me… Read more »

Four Roses Mariage Collection 2009 Release Review by Tom Fischer

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Four Roses Mariage Collection 2009 Release Review by Tom Fischer

Whiskey: Four Roses Mariage Collection (2009 Release) Distillery: Four Roses, Lawrenceburg, Kentucky Age: 19- and 10-year-old Proof: range of 114-118, (actual bottling proof unknown) Bottle: Sample sent from the distillery, label reads “non-chill filtered” Notes:The recipe  for this bourbon includes a 19-year-old and 10-year-old bourbon and from different recipes of Four Roses.  For more on… Read more »