Kentucky Bourbon Festival
The Kentucky Bourbon Festival is a weeklong activity consisting of more than thirty events in
The event started in 1991 as a dinner and bourbon tasting for 250 people. The event now draws more than 50,000 visitors each year from more than a dozen countries including Japan and the U.K. The festival also is almost always a sold-out event, with over 10,000 tickets available and sold between both distilleries and attendees. This makes it one of Kentucky's largest events. [3]
Along with concerts with names like the
Along with these activities includes tasting events, cooking demonstrations, competitions, and historic tours on bourbon and Kentucky.
Before 2021, the festival was open to anyone, kids and adults, alike. But, in 2021, some things were changed. It is now only a 21+ event. The Kentucky Bourbon Festival states that their festival has been "reimagined" for this. This is a new change made to the festival, as children and families won't be able to get in.
The festival moved online in 2020 as the physical part was scrapped on grounds of COVID-19 pandemic.
The festival, since 2021, has been moved back to an in-person event in its original place of Bardstown, Kentucky.
See also
- American Whiskey Trail
- Kentucky Bourbon Trail
- List of attractions and events in the Louisville metropolitan area
- Whiskey
- Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
References
- ^ Kentucky Bourbon Festival web site.
- ^ Bardstown Tourism Commission Archived 2007-04-27 at the Wayback Machine web site.
- ^ http://www.american.com/archive/2008/october-10-08/whiskey-galore Whiskey Galore!, TheAmerican.com, October 2008.
External links
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