On day two, we started our tours in Woodford County at Wild Turkey. It was much cooler and rainy on day two, but we toughed it out in the name of bourbon. :) The Wild Turkey visitor center was quite beautiful and overlooked an old railroad bridge and ravine. Our tour consisted of hopping on and off of a shuttle bus to be taken to the various parts of the distillery. Our tour guide, Jacob was entertaining and funny. Most of the information on this tour was repetitive of information we heard on other tours, but it was still interesting. One new thing we noticed was the drop down blast shields over the interior windows and the extra fire resistance features in the distilling areas. (Jacob reminded us that alcohol is highly flammable.) At our tasting, we sampled their Kentucky Spirit Single Barrel, Russel Select 10-year, Wild Turkey Rye Whiskey, and their American Honey Sting Whiskey.
From there, we headed to the Four Roses, also in Woodford County. We had already been to the Four Roses facility near Bardstown, KY on our last trip, so we didn't feel the need to do a tour or tasting there this time. So we walked around the gift shop, made a few purchases, and took some photos. Then we headed into Lexington for lunch.
We ate near campus at Blaze Pizza and walked over to Insomnia Cookies to purchase some of their awesome cookies (we got peanut butter, lemon, white chocolate macadamia nut, and chocolate chunk). While the rain sputtered on and off most of the day, we headed to Blue Grass Distillers, another small craft distillery in Lexington. This was my personal favorite distillery, just because it was small, quaint, intimate, and the tour guide was one of the owners. They were being really creative in their distilling by using blue corn instead of yellow corn - I thought that showed some great creativity. They also used a copper still (which creates smoother bourbon) made especially for them in Portugal. Their branding was sophisticated, and they seemed similar to Ken and I in their DIY spirit. There, we tasted their "blue dog" moonshine, a yellow corn and rye bourbon, and the best bourbon cake I've ever tasted.
After we left Bluegrass, we headed over to Town Branch Distillery, only to find out all the tours for the rest of the day were sold out. (Curse you April weekends! Any further Bourbon Trail trips for us will, for sure, be on weekdays!) The earliest tour we could book was for the next day at 1 pm. So, we headed back to the campground, stopping by to check out the Horse Park itself first. It was around 3:30 pm or so when we arrived and we learned that even though they closed at 5 pm, if we paid for our admission for Saturday, we also received admission to the park all day Sunday as well. So we paid, went in and explored the park a bit. We took some photos and checked out two of their museums. We would return on Sunday morning to catch some of the shows.
After a short visit at the park, we went back to the campground and prepared dinner in the RV. After dinner we walked around the campground for almost an hour, looking at RVs and taking it easy. Then, we went inside our RV to play more Cards Against Humanity until after midnight.
