Urban Bourbon Trail Cocktail Contest at Maker’s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge

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× BourbonBlog.com at Maker’s Mark Bourbon House and Lounge for the Urban Bourbon Trail Cocktail Contest in Louisville Kentucky featuring mixologists/bartenders from all the Urban Bourbon Trail destinations who are competing to win. As Maker’s Mark Lounge hosts this inaugural contest, they invite BourbonBlog.com‘s Tom Fischer to be a judge. After tasting around 10 brilliant… Read more »

Maker’s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge

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BourbonBlog.com at Maker’s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge in Louisville, Kentucky. We join Bill Samuels Jr. and our Maker’s Lounge friends for a special evening celebrating Bill Samuel’s Jr., who tells us his son Rob Samuels the new COO of Maker’s Mark, has created a position just for Bill to stick around the business. We… Read more »

Maker’s Mark Keeneland Bottle

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Maker’s Mark Distillery tells BourbonBlog.com that their 2011 Maker’s Mark Mile commemorative bottle honoring Keeneland Race Course in commemoration of its 75th anniversary goes on sale today! This is just about a week before there will be a special signing of the bottle at Keeneland. Sales of the specialty bottle will benefit a newly named endowment… Read more »

Maker’s Mark Bourbon Chocolate Bread Pudding for Your Valentine

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Bill Samuels, Jr. of Maker’s Mark Bourbon says that while he knows we are all trying to stick to those New Year’s resolutions, he still wanted to share with BourbonBlog.com this recipe for Bourbon Chocolate Bread pudding for Valentine’s Day. Bourbon Chocolate Bread Pudding 2 cups whole milk 4 eggs 1/3 cup Maker’s Mark Bourbon… Read more »

Maker’s Mark Winter Art

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The scene on the new  frosted Maker’s Mark Holiday Collector’s bottle is from an original oil painting by Mary Hagy as part of  her four seasons at Maker’s Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky. These paintings were released as limited Edition prints. Mary tells BourbonBlog.com she has a gallery in Bardstown and as been very busy… Read more »

Maker’s Mark Ice Ball Maker Mold “Bourbon Balls” Gift

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BourbonBlog.com has noticed the recent trend of designer spherical “ice balls” made for cocktails and mixology. With a perfect sphere giving less surface area, your cocktail or Bourbon stays cold without the ice melting so quickly. Maker’s Mark recognized the trend and created their own plastic signature ice ball maker mold as the 2010 holiday… Read more »

Rob Samuels becomes Chief Operating Officer Maker’s Mark

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Bill Samuels, Jr. tells BourbonBlog.com that effective November 1, his son Rob will become Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Maker’s, the business his grandparents started 67 years ago. BourbonBlog.com just interview Rob Samuels two days ago at The Bourbon Chase in the video linked below where Rob talked about his grandparents starting Maker’s Mark. In… Read more »

Maker’s Mark and Running

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BourbonBlog.com joins thousands of runners at Maker’s Mark Bourbon Distillery just outside of Lebanon, KY during The Bourbon Chase 2010. Interview with Eric Gregory, President of Kentucky Distillers’ Association & Rob Samuels Kevin Smith of Maker’s Mark. ×