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Sweet Kentucky Brown

by Kevin Raub
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Jailer’s Inn Bed and Breakfast
Bardstown, Kentucky
(800) 948-5551
www.jailersinn.com

Meek House
Frankfort, Kentucky
(866) 646-7650
www.bbonline.com/ky/meek/

Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center
Bardstown, Kentucky
(502) 337-1000
bourbonheritagecenter.com


Jim Beam
American Outpost
Clermont, Kentucky
(502) 543-9877
www.smallbatch.com

Wild Turkey
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
(502) 839-4544
www.wildturkey.com

Four Roses
Anderson County,
Kentucky
(502) 839-3436
www.fourroses.us

Buffalo Trace
Franklin County, Kentucky
(800) 654-8471
www.buffalotrace.com

BOURBON PRIMER


Here are the criteria that make Kentucky Straight Bourbon different from whiskey produced everywhere else (and it just so happens to be law in Kentucky).

ONE:
It must contain 51 percent corn mash.

TWO:
It must be distilled at no more than 160 proof.

THREE:
It cannot go into the barrels at higher than 125 proof.

FOUR:
It must be aged for a minimum of two years in charred new white oak barrels.

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