The Urban Bourbon Trail
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by admin in Highlights
Get your tasting boots on, it’s time to hit the Urban Bourbon Trail, a tour round downtown Louisville’s premier bars and hotels, where the likes of writer Scott F Fitzgerald or the “non-writer” Al Capone took their drinks or where Louisville’s trendsetters kick back.
There’s the Old Seelbach Bar, the 1892 tavern or the lounge bar at Brown’s, redolent of a 1930s movie set, or sample the wares at the in-vogue 21c Museum hotel’s restaurant bar, Proof on Main, or the urban cool bar at Blu.
Grab your Urban Trail passport and tick off the destinations with a stamp, sampling en route some classic bourbons and cocktails, such as the ubiquitous Manhattan or the legendary Mint Julep. Most venues offer tastings and can talk you through the subtle nuances of up to 50 different, and largely distinct bourbons, with most serving up innovative food and snacks, such as the fabled mint julep pancake or bourbon barrel smoked salmon.
OK, you don’t have to finish the whole trail in one go – that would be dangerous, and a waste. Just grab the passport and pick off again whenever you want.
For more details, visit http://www.justaddbourbon.com/planavisit/urbantrail.aspx
Or why not joi the Facebok group http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urban-Bourbon-Trail/62763884459
