Kentucky Horse Farm Tour in Summer: What to Expect When the Bluegrass Is at Its Best
The Bluegrass in Summer Is Something Else There is a moment on every summer horse farm tour we run where the bus goes quiet. We will be rolling down Paris Pike or Iron Works Pike, the limestone fences blurring past, horses moving slowly through a paddock against a sky that is absurdly blue, and someone […]
The Barrel to Bottle Bourbon Tour: Inside One of Kentucky’s Best Kept Day Trip Secrets
What Happens Before the Bourbon Even Exists Most people think bourbon starts at a distillery. Pour the grain, run it through the still, age it in a barrel. Done. But the barrel itself is where the real story begins, and almost nobody talks about that part. Our Barrel to Bottle Tour was built specifically to […]
Kentucky Food and Bourbon Tour: Where Great Whiskey Meets Even Better Food
The Meal I Keep Thinking About A couple of years back, I watched a guest on one of our tours take her first bite of a hot brown at a restaurant in Bardstown and go completely silent. Not in a polite way. In a way that meant she needed a moment. That is Kentucky food. […]
Kentucky Derby Week Travel Tips for First-Time Visitors to the Bluegrass State
Nobody Tells You This About Derby Week Everyone knows the Kentucky Derby is a spectacle. The hats, the mint juleps, the two minutes of thundering horses that the whole world watches. What nobody tells you before your first trip is how much is happening around that race and how easy it is to spend the […]
Bachelor Party Bourbon Distillery Tour in Kentucky: How to Plan the Ultimate Guys Trip
This Is Not a Bar Crawl A bar crawl is fine. But a bachelor party bourbon distillery tour in Kentucky is something else entirely. It is two days, maybe three, built around some of the most historic and delicious whiskey operations in the world, driven through horse country on roads that look like they belong […]
Corporate Group Tours in Kentucky: Why Bourbon Country Is the Best Team Retreat You Have Not Tried Yet
The Corporate Retreat Problem Nobody Talks About Every year, someone on the leadership team gets assigned the job of planning the company retreat. And every year, that person stares at a screen full of the same tired options: a hotel conference room with a ropes course, a golf outing half the group does not want […]
A Kentucky Horse Farm Tour Experience You Will Not Find on Your Own
Most visitors to Central Kentucky spend their time planning which distilleries to hit and forget entirely that they’re also sitting in the middle of the world’s most celebrated horse country. That’s a mistake. A real one. The bluegrass region around Lexington is home to some of the most beautiful and historically significant horse farms on […]
Bachelorette Party Ideas in Lexington Kentucky That Go Beyond the Usual
The bride-to-be had been to Nashville twice for bachelorette weekends, once for a friend’s and once for a sister’s. When it came time to plan her own, she told her maid of honor she wanted something different. Something she’d actually remember. They called us in April. By the time that group of eleven women rolled […]
Why a Private Bourbon Distillery Tour in Kentucky Is Worth Every Penny
There’s a version of a distillery tour where you’re standing in a group of thirty strangers, straining to hear a guide over the echoing rick house acoustics, waiting your turn to sniff a barrel sample. And then there’s a private bourbon distillery tour in Kentucky where the itinerary was built around your group, the pace […]
Bourbon Trail Tours in Lexington KY: What to Expect on a Real Kentucky Distillery Experience
Last summer, a group of eight friends from Columbus piled onto our bus with zero expectations. They figured it would be a nice afternoon, maybe a few decent sips of bourbon. By the time we dropped them off that evening, two of them had already pulled out their phones to book a return trip. That […]