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By Distillery Trail Posted July 24, 2018 I visited Hard Truth Distilling on the day they were raising their new column stills. Quite a marquee day for this micro distiller turn full-time craft distillery. The current location allows them to distill about 40 gallons per week. The new place will allow them to distill about forty 53…

Click here to see Distillery Trail’s coverage of the Ribbon Cutting at Dueling Barrels Brewery & Distillery – June 27, 2019 The nearly 30,000 square-foot facility houses three copper pot stills and 19 fermenters, and it has the capacity to produce 40,000 brewer’s barrels annually. 1000 gal Wash Still, 650 gal Spirit Still, 225 gal Moonshine…

Click Here to see a great article on The Courier Journal about 15 top Kentucky Distilleries (many with photo galleries) Woodford Reserve Wild Turkey (pictured above) Jim Beam Angel’s Envy Kentucky Peerless Evan Williams Bourbon Experience Old Forester Rabbit Hole Maker’s Mark Four Roses Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Experience Buffalo Trace Heaven Hill Willet Copper &…

As the tour continues, visitors move from the fermentation room to board an elevator. As the elevator ascends, guests are treated to a brightly lit Vendome Copper & Brass Works all copper doubler. The ride continues and you pass inches away from the Vendome 4,700 lb. 44′ tall, 24″ in diameter copper column still with…

Visitors to the distillery will have an opportunity to dine, sip, tour, host events and return to experience it over and over again but let’s not forget that there’s a workhorse hiding under all that steel that makes whiskey, a lot of whiskey. The 55,000 square foot Rabbit Hole Distillery packs a punch with an…

Coverage of the Install Ceremony of Bardstown Bourbon Company’s 2nd 36″ Diameter Continuous Distillation Column Click here to Visit Distillery Trail and read the article with a very nice photo gallery and Video

By Distillery Trail (April 13, 2018) The new distillery will start out producing around 20,000 barrels of bourbon a year with the ability to increase to 50,000 in the future. Click here to read all about the Grand Opening on Distillery Trail.

Moonshine University’s new program, My Craft Distillery program, allows you to make your own barrel of bourbon on their Vendome equipment from start to finish under expert guidance.  There is a lot more involved than just a barrel of bourbon.You can read all about it on the Courier Journal.  

Click here to read a nice article on the installation of a new 12″ continuous wash still at The Old Pogue Distillery on The Ledger Independent.

By Distillery Trail – December 26, 2017 The James Pepper Distilling Co., producer of the James E. Pepper “1776”® whiskey brand announced renovation plans at a groundbreaking ceremony in May of 2016. 18 months later, the distillery originally founded in 1879 but abandoned in 1958 has fermented, distilled and barreled its first batch of bourbon…