Bourbon Trail...

Zach had a baseball tournament in Bardstown & couple of weeks ago & between games Ron & I went driving around Bardstown. It is a beautiful little town - they still have alot of old buildings & houses.

Anyway we found Heaven Hills Distillery - we just drove around, didn't take a tour because I was starving. So we went to a restaurant that has in another old house & it was called Kurtz & has been in the family for a long time. Anyway they had the best food - good home cooking! The blackberry cobbler was awesome too - it was so sweet it tasted like blackberry jam - yummm!

We stopped by Jim Beam Distillery as well. We took the tour at Jim Beam - it is really interesting, but I like history too. It was a Sunday & in that county they can't serve alcohol on Sunday's so we were given Bourbon Chocolate - they were good.

Anyway - while on the tour at Jim Beam the guide told us that there is this thing called the Bourbon Trail & you get a little book & you get a stamp in your book each time to go to a distillery that is on the trail - there are 6 of them. Once you collect all 6 stamps you mail in your completed book & you'll get a T-shirt & a passport sent back to you. I told Ron it will probably be the only passport that I'll ever have because I have a fear of leaving the country & them not letting me back in :).

So Ron & I headed back to Bardstown yesterday & went to Makers Mark. It is BEAUTIFUL down there. It is hard to find, but it is beautiful! I liked it much better than Beam because you could see more of the distillery.

Makers Mark can serve alcohol on Sundays so we got to taste test 2 of their bourbon's. I have to say that other than beer I don't like any alcohol unless it is mixed & then at that a little goes a long way. So anyway..I did as I was told, I smelled with my mouth - yeah still don't understand that one, but I did as I was told. I was then told to take a sip & to swish it in my mouth around my tongue for 3 seconds. Again, I did as I was told & I know that while doing this I had the weirdest look on my face, because it was NASTY! Then to swallow it - it gave me instant goose bumps & made my tummy flop the wrong way.

They did give us their chocolate too & I have to say that there chocolate was better that Jim Beam. Maybe I'll just taste test the chocolate's at each distillery instead of the bourbon, since I don't know how to appreciate the bourbon.

We also went back to Kurtz & again got the blackberry cobbler & again it was wonderful!

So we now have 2 stamps & only need 4 more & I'll have my passport haha