Here are 10 things you probably didn’t know about Kentucky and bourbon:
- All bourbon is whiskey is but not all whiskey is bourbon.
- Bourbon, by law, must be aged in a brand-new, charred white oak barrel to be called straight bourbon whiskey
- Where does all the corn and other grain go after it’s done making bourbon?
- Nothing can be added to bourbon in the distilling process except water.
- Bourbon is All-American.
- There are more barrels of bourbon than people in Kentucky.
- Kentucky geographically is in the middle of the U.S. but it’s a southern state.
- The angel’s share.
- Why bartenders do multiple pours.
- Marijuana and disco balls.
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Kentucky is where 95 percent of the world’s bourbon is made and when you embark on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, you’ll learn a whole lot about bourbon— and the state of Kentucky along the way
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