ELEVATE bartenders spent a morning at Bardstown Bourbon Firm in Bardstown, KY, the bourbon capital of the world.
The corporate was based in 2014, and right now, its state-of-the-art facility sits on a 100-acre property and produces greater than 50 totally different mashbills. It’s the first Napa Valley-style vacation spot on the Kentucky Bourbon Path, combining distilling, culinary, and beverage for a contemporary bourbon expertise.
Licensed bourbon stewards guided ELEVATE attendees throughout the sprawling property to showcase how the corporate creates, ages, develops, and finishes their merchandise within the nation’s most technologically superior distillery. The tour ended within the newly constructed rickhouse tasting room, the place the bartenders have been handled to a bourbon pattern straight from the barrel.
After the tour, bartenders headed inside to style numerous pours of Hirsch chosen whiskeys. Hirsch, defined head distiller Kevin Aslan, was based by A. H. Hirsch in 1974. “We’ve been working with Bardstown Bourbon Firm since about 2017,” he stated. “We’re so glad we partnered with them to make our Kentucky bourbon.”
Hirsch presently affords 5 forms of whiskey, all of which function revamped packaging that options notches on either side and a sextant on the label. “We wished the bottle to mirror journey,” Aslan stated. “It’s purported to be the form of the flask, and on the underside it says, ‘no stone left unturned.’”
The whiskey names are on theme as properly. The Horizon is a 92-proof, high-rye, straight bourbon that boasts a traditional bourbon profile with candy cornbread and vanilla on the nostril. There may be additionally The Bivouac, which refers to a brief camp and not using a tent or cowl. The 100-proof, high-malted barley straight bourbon is a mix of two mashbills. The completed product options an aroma of barley, cinnamon, cherry and vanilla; and a maple pecan, peanut-forward taste with mild notes of citrus, stone fruit, and honey.
