🥃 'Bourbon tells the story of America: lots of different races, genders and identities made it what it is today' ⬇️ How African American makers are shaking up Kentucky's historic Bourbon Trail
Change is afoot along the rest of the trail too. Recently-relaxed liquor laws mean distilleries can now open satellite tasting rooms and sell cocktails. Neither was legal a decade ago. These new regulations mean that visitors are flowing as freely as theYet bourbon is more than a drink. It’s a piece of the US’s cultural jigsaw, its liquid blueprint.
We’re sitting in Lockbox, the swish New American restaurant attached to the city’s 21c Museum Hotel, grazing on pimento mac and cheese and creamed corn esquites. I stop at Louisville’s Frazier Museum, the official start of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Here, visitors learn how to make Old Fashioneds in interactive cocktail classes and discover the nuts and bolts of bourbon through The Spirit of Kentucky Exhibit. Now, monthly “Black Americans in Bourbon” tours also shine a spotlight on the African American contribution to the industry, connecting visitors with a range of industry heavyweights.
Trouble is a homely, freewheeling kind of place, with slouchy leather seats and rainbow flags on bare-brick walls. It’s as much a community hub as a bourbon bar.And, of course, the drinks menu is solid too. “It was extremely important to me that our flights represented every stage of whiskey discovery – from the beginner to the aficionado,” Stipp tells me. “I don’t want you to need a special codex to come into Trouble Bar”.
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