Kentucky Bourbon Festival
Sunday, September 15, 2024 from 12:00pm to 04:00pm
Kentucky Bourbon Festival
114 North 5th Street
Schedule Of Events:
12:30pm - 2:00pm - Sunday Brunch, Bourbon, Bacon and Burgoo, featuring Michter's
Join Michter’s Master Distiller, Dan McKee and Master of Maturation, Andrea Wilson for an authentic Kentucky culinary experience – Enjoy a cocktail with a traditional Southern-style brunch including a Kentucky classic - burgoo! Learn about Michter’s six production techniques and gain unique insight into Michter’s whiskeys all over brunch. Michter’s Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon, Michter’s 10 yr Kentucky Straight Bourbon, Michter’s Barrel Strength Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Guests will be able to explore the differences in proof and age.
Cost: $95.00
Location: KPFF Great Tent
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Rare and Vintage Bourbon Pours with Travis Hill
If you like “dusties”—bourbons quite possibly older than you—join veteran bourbon collector and educator, Travis Hill, for this tasting of rare American whiskey treasures. This year’s lineup includes an 80 proof Old Crow Bourbon (1978), a 90 proof Jim Beam Bourbon (1969), an 8 year, 90 proof Old Fitzgerald Bourbon (1977), an Old Forester Bottled-In-Bond (1960s) and an Old Granddad 114 proof (1981).
Cost: $125.00
Location: Brindiamo Penthouse
12:30pm - 1:30pm - The Bourbon:30 Talk Show - Unicorns: Are They Worth The Hunt
Unicorns, a.k.a. super rare bottles, are prizes about which collectors wax poetic. O.G. unicorns are dusties made long before bourbon’s current boom. Are they still worth seeking out, are they even available, or are there new unicorns being released in 2024? Listen in as veteran collectors Larry Rice, Jeremy Schell and Chris Sternberg compare bottle hunting in the early 2000s to searching in 2024.
Cost: Free
Location: Evergreen Main Stage
1:30pm - 2:00pm - The Bourbon:30 Talk Show - Press for Information: Whiskey Reporters Panel
American whiskey writers see and experience the industry in ways most consumers never do. Listen in as David Thomas Tao, Sara Haven and Frank Dobbins discuss trends, share their research, talk about travel to distilleries across the globe and mention regularly that their jobs are some of the best in the world.
Cost: Free
Location: Evergreen Main Stage
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Ask Anything Bourbon Q&A: Sips and Stories With Veteran Whiskey Makers
Enjoy this rare opportunity to ask our panel of whiskey experts whatever you want to know about their work—all while sipping their whiskeys and enjoying their entertaining answers. On the panel will be master distillers Conor O’Driscoll (Heaven Hill), Lynne Dant, Ross Cornelissen (1792) and Potter Jane Distilling co-founder Jane Bowie.
Cost: $85.00
Location: Brindiamo Penthouse
2:30pm - 3:00pm - The Bourbon:30 Talk Show - The Takeaway: Tell Us What You Learned At the 2024 KYBF
The KYBF welcomes some 7,000 visitors each year to taste whiskey, talk to the people who make it and listen to industry buzz. KYBF Chairman, Cordell Lawrence, KYBF President & COO, Randy Prasse, KYBF Vice President of Distiller Relatons, Stacy Pritchard and Bourbon:30 host Steve Coomes and some KYBF team members review what’s new and ask audience members about their favorite parts of KBF 2024.
Cost: Free
Location: Evergreen Main Stage
