As with all of these tours, the final stop is the destination of choice - it’s where the tasting is. The mini-distillery is kind of there for show (the real distillery is out in Bardstown and totally worth the drive down), but whiskey is being made behind the glass as you’re guided through the place. Once inside, the stop is part whiskey shop, part museum, part bar, and part micro-distillery. The Experience is right in the middle of the Row and one of the busier stops (there are sometimes lines to get in). Evan Williams ExperienceĮvan Williams is one of the cheapest whiskey on the shelves, so this might be the must-stop for every bourbon lover out there. Each tour comes with a tasting at the end.īook a Tour/Tasting Here Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, 528 W Main St. Tours run Wednesday through Saturday every hour between 11 am and 4 pm and Sundays between 1 pm to 4 pm. The tours last one, one-and-a-half, and two hours and cost $20 to $100, depending on the tour. For that, you’ll need to take the Legacy Tour ($100), which is two hours, and includes a tasting with Michter’s 20-Year Single Barrel Bourbon (!), and the opportunity to also fill a barrel of whiskey on site.īasically, you’re getting a chance to both sample a $200 pour at any high-end whiskey bar and walk away with a bespoke bottle from the distillery. ![]() What you’ll want to do at Fort Nelson is fill your very own bottle of Fort Nelson Michter’s Barrel Strength Bourbon straight from a barrel. That all said, this is a tourist experience - the full distillery is out in Shivley (West Louisville) and closed to the public. A few choice barrels are aged on-site as well. The moment you walk into the place, you can smell the grains fermenting in the back. The actual distillery is a small operation with three small, wooden mash tanks and two stills. This micro-distillery and gift shop is located in one of downtown Louisville’s best preserved historic buildings. Michters Fort NelsonĬontinuing west on Main Street, you’re going to hit Michter’s Fort Nelson Distillery next. Michter’s Fort Nelson Distillery, 801 W Main St. Tastings cost between $10 and $18 and run Monday through Thursday at 1:45, 3:45, and 4:45, and Friday at 1:45 and 3:45. The tasting room experience will walk you through Peerless’ award-winning and delicious rye and bourbon whiskeys with a tasting expert guiding your every sip.ĭistillery tours cost between $15 and $28 and run Monday through Saturday at 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, and 2:30. The bottle shop will have limited releases and special single-barrel expressions you simply cannot get elsewhere. And while that’s totally worth doing, what you really want to do is get the in-house tasting in their tasting room and buy a distillery-only bottle from the gift shop. The distillery tour is very small, as Peerless is still a small-ish craft operation. This is a real working distillery (that’s not 100 percent true of a lot of the other whiskey “experiences” on the Row) and you’re likely to see the Master Distiller actually making the whiskey you’ll taste after your tour. The distillery is where everything happens for Peerless whiskey from mashing to distilling to aging to bottling. the best place to start your Whiskey Row experience. Starting at the far west end of Main Street, you’ll find Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. PART I - The Whiskey Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co., 120 N 10th St.
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