Happy Kentucky Bourbon Festival y’all! To those of us who live in Kentucky and are in the Bourbon Business, this is our Super Bowl, our World Cup! If you haven’t come before, I suggest that if you’re a bourbon lover, or a whisk(e)y lover in general, you should make it sometime.Many folks ask me, “When is that?” but it’s easy to remember, it’s ALWAYS the third week of September.Some of the best weather we have in Kentucky is right around this time of year.This week here it’s going to be 75F all week and very pleasant at night…if you’re close by, c’mon down to Bardstown.

Voted one of the Most Beautiful Small Town In America by both Rand McNally and USA Today, all of 11,200 residents of Bardstown welcome tens of thousands of visitors from around the world to the Bourbon Festival each year. There’s lots to do all week.Ticketed events usually sell out way in advance, but right in the center of town at the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey all the distilleries set up a fair, and over at the ball field is where the Barrel Relay Races happen on Saturday.Every distillery puts up teams, women’s, men’s, and individuals roll barrels in a rick and compete for fastest time and accuracy.At first this sounds like it’s not that exciting, but when you are there, and you see the barrels all clocking and rolling and setting each one with the barrel bung straight up at 12 o clock…the crowd goes berserk!