Bourbon Festival in Bardstown, KY
At last! We made it to Kentucky for the festival. Seems like we have been traveling here forever.
Bardstown is in the Bourbon capital of the world, home to around 30 distilleries, large & small, but if you want to be buying bottles, don’t come to the festival, do the Bourbon Trail instead. If you want to buy bourbon balls, furniture made from old barrels and get you some distillery swag, then come to the festival. Plus it was a lot of fun looking at all those old cars. (What cars? psst scroll down)
Coopers coopering
I may have no idea what I was looking at, other than that they were all cars, but I am more than qualified to decide which Wacky Races character would drive it. They sure were beautiful and super shiny. The engines were way cleaner than the inside of our car and some had even matched the engine color to the hubcaps - now that’s special!
The Old Talbott Tavern serving lunch since 1779
Beer Cheese! How did I not know this was a thing?!
now THATS a bourbon menu!
A large shady brick porch, a terribly tempting place to rock away an afternoon
Bardstown has a large historic district, with plenty of graceful porches, log homes and old brick buildings and a decent downtown to wander, shop & eat.
We particularly enjoyed Mammies Kitchen and the discovery of Hot Brown, a pile of shaved turkey & ham on Texas toast, with Parmesan Mornay sauce, topped with bacon, cheese & grilled tomatoes and although it is hot, it is not brown. Don’t ask - I have no idea why it is called Hot Brown, I only know it is delicious. And of course we had to have fried chicken as we are in Kentucky.
Best.Chicken.Ever.
Hot Brown - yeh - it’s not brown is it.
old log house still in use as offices in Bardstown, KY
