Bardstown Bourbon Company

Where Bourbon Isn’t Explained—It’s Experienced

Planted squarely in the rolling heart of Bourbon Country, Bardstown Bourbon Company is not content to simply show you how bourbon is made. It throws open the doors, hands you the thief, and lets you step into the process. This is bourbon at full volume—grain, fire, oak, and time working in plain sight.

As one of the most forward-thinking distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown Bourbon Company delivers the most immersive, hands-on bourbon experiences in the state. Whether you arrive as a lifelong bourbon drinker or a curious first-timer, you’ll leave with deeper knowledge, sharper senses, and a stronger connection to what’s in your glass.

Here, bourbon isn’t behind glass.
It’s in your hands.

🥃 Choose Your Bourbon Path

Tours That Go Beyond the Pour

Every experience at Bardstown Bourbon Company is guided by true bourbon practitioners—people who mash, distill, age, blend, and bottle the whiskey you’re tasting. These aren’t scripts. They’re lived-in stories.

🌾 From Grain to Glass Bourbon Tour

The Foundation of Flavor

This is where bourbon reveals itself.

Trace whiskey’s journey from raw grain through fermentation, distillation, barreling, and bottling. Stand beside fermenters alive with activity, feel the heat of the stills, and watch bourbon take form in real time.

The tour ends with a guided tasting of Bardstown Bourbon Company’s signature pours—bourbons that show how modern precision can still honor Kentucky tradition.

A must for first-time visitors and purists alike.

🛢️ Rickhouse Barrel Thieving Tour

Straight From the Source

This is bourbon without filters or fences.

Step into the rickhouse and pull whiskey straight from the barrel using a traditional thief. Taste how heat, oak, and time shape bourbon year by year. No dilution. No blending. Just raw Kentucky bourbon in its natural state.

It’s one of the most visceral bourbon experiences on the Trail—and a favorite for good reason.

🎨 The Art of Bourbon Blending

Where Science Meets Instinct

Blending is where bourbon becomes art.

Learn how Bardstown Bourbon Company crafts celebrated releases like the Discovery Series—balancing age, proof, mash bill, and barrel character. Then step into the role yourself: blend, taste, adjust, and refine until the bourbon speaks your language.

Finish by bottling your custom blend—proof that bourbon can be both personal and precise.

📚 The Whiskey Library Experience

Rare Bourbon, Quietly Revered

Enter an exclusive whiskey library for a private, guided tasting of rare, vintage, and limited-edition bourbons. Trace the evolution of bourbon through flavor, history, and barrel influence, guided by stories only insiders know.

This is bourbon tasting slowed to a whisper.

🧴 Bottle Your Own Bourbon

Seal the Memory

Add a bottle-your-own experience to any tour and leave with something truly personal. Fill your bottle by hand, cork it, label it, and carry home a piece of your time in Bardstown—sealed in glass.

🌟 Why Bardstown Bourbon Company Stands Apart

  • Multiple tour paths for every level of bourbon obsession

  • Hands-on experiences—thieving, blending, bottling

  • Expert-led tours by people who actually make the whiskey

  • Award-winning bourbons across the Origin, Discovery, and Fusion Series

  • A distillery built to show bourbon as it truly is—alive and evolving

This is total bourbon immersion.

🍽️ Bourbon Beyond the Barrel

Bardstown Kitchen & Bar

After your tour, stay for a meal that understands bourbon’s role at the table. The on-site restaurant features bourbon-driven cuisine and expertly crafted cocktails, with pairing recommendations tailored to your pours.

Louisville Tasting Room

Can’t make it to Bardstown? Visit Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Whiskey Row location in downtown Louisville for guided tastings, exclusive bottles, and curated merchandise.

📍 Plan Your Bourbon Pilgrimage

Bardstown Bourbon Company
1500 Parkway Dr
Bardstown, KY

🕰️ Open daily for tours, tastings, and dining
🌐 bardstownbourbon.com

🍂 More Than a Tour—This Is Modern Bourbon Culture

At Bardstown Bourbon Company, bourbon isn’t just produced—it’s explored, questioned, and celebrated. Every tour deepens your understanding. Every tasting sharpens your palate. Every experience brings you closer to the barrel.

If you want to see bourbon, go anywhere.
If you want to understand it, come here.

Book your tour.
Grab the thief.
And step fully into the world of bourbon. 🥃