Buffalo Trace

By far our favorite tour - actually we took two tours. They were both free - and had the most interesting tour guides. If you only have time for one tour take this one - but make sure you make reservations in advance.

This is another distillery that has been here a while. The biggest difference is it actually operated during prohibition. Liquor was the only day to day pain killer most people had access to at that point. Over 6 million prescriptions were written during that time period...

One of their older rick houses - built in 1835. Think about this - each barrel ways about 540 lbs (about 180 liters of fluid in each barrel)- and there are about 24,000 barrels in the rick house at any given time. That's a lot of weight for a building almost 200 years old. Also - referring back to the Makers Mark blog - about the Heaven Hill fire. How would you like to fight this one?

Love it! This sign was in an old abandoned part of the plant.

Check out this picture - and then the one below...

Same mural - from two different angles. Pretty cool huh?
It was painted by an employee - they encourage their staff to think outside the box and work on their grounds.

Barley - Buffalo Trace uses only GMO free grains!

This place has been added onto so many times over the years that it's kind of a weird conglomeration of buildings and pipes going everywhere.

The first tour we went on was done by a gentleman whose grandfather had worked here - he had lots of really interesting stories on the history of the place.

Hoping this video will work. Keep in mind that there is no agitation added to the fermentation process - the movement you see is from the action of the yeast and the grains. When it stops moving it's time for distillation.

Mixing some of the sour mash from the previous batch with the new sweet mash (grains and yeast) - to make the next batch of sour mash.

The master distillers still...

White dog - didn't like it here either...

Wish we could have gotten a better picture of the outside of this old warehouse. This building is sitting right on the river.

One of the original buildings on the property - was used for trade from the river back in the late 1700's. They claim it's haunted.

My favorite was the Buffalo Trace - Scott liked the Eagle Rare. We both loved their Bourbon Cream.

Almost every tour mentioned the rick house fire in the 90's - here at Buffalo Trace they've always built their brick buildings a bit different - see the change in pattern every five rows?

That's it! We hope you enjoyed!