Monday, May 28, 2018

May 19-24, 2018 Kentucky

Kentucky is one of my favorite states and it will take more than one post 
to log everything we seen.

Our first stop was to meet up with friends in Cave City, Kentucky.
Teri ran the roads with us while Joe worked.

We did something different, we went to 
Lost River Cave.  It was a great tour with a lot of history.




 Mammoth Cave.
We took the easy tour.  It was beautiful but next time we will
be taking the long tour!!





Cave snowballs on the roof

Old cave graffiti.
Mostly advertising

 Cave flowers.

The rocks on the floor fell from the hole 
in the ceiling 





This was our first trip to a cooperage.  
Learning how they build and fire the barrels was 
a bonus to how the bourbon is distilled.





We toured Willett years ago.
The tour is packed with so much history about the company.
They are also building a bed and breakfast on site.
We will be staying there when they open.











This still is so beautiful.
 

Look at the bubbles.

The mark of the Kentucky Cooperage

Roll the barrels on the rails 

These are hams.  A local chef has his hams aged in the rick house.

Barrel weigh station



This was our first time here.
This place has survived fires and was able to keep 
their license during Prohibition. 




This pump moves the product from the 
distiller below.


























Our tour guide did something we had never seen.
She took some of the white dog/moonshine and poured it in our hands.
We rubbed our hands together and smelled.  We did that 4 separate times and each time
we got a new aroma. I thought it would be sticky but I was wrong.  Our hands were left very 
soft from the oils in the grains.




Barrel houses are my favorite part of the tours.



This is always one of my favorite tours.  We thought Teri would
like it so we drove another hour across the state just to share this 
with her.  It was worth the drive!


These barrels are made in Missouri 



Love it when the Blanton's bottling line is running



Look who we found

He really liked Teri



Such a beautiful sunset

Making our way to the mitten 

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