If you look closely at this bottle, you'll see my initials on it. Jim Beam allows one to "create your own" bottle of Single Barrel Bourbon, which is a relatively new product in the Beam offerings. I chose a bottle, rinsed it, put in on the line and then we got to watch it go through all steps culminating with hand labeling with the barrel number and other details.
Trip to Jim Beam was quite enjoyable. The aroma of the entire place is amazing even when you get outside the distillery and the smells inside are even more intoxicating. If you like bourbon and you've never been inside the barrel room of a distillery, it's a bucket-list kind of event. All of the buildings smell great, even the mash buildings earlier in process. So, so good.
For lunch, we grabbed Brisket and ribs at Fred's smokehouse which is on the same property as the distillery. The food was pretty good and the bourbon baked beans were incredible. But my gosh, the servers were sloth-like in their execution. It was the fourth and so lines were extra long, but they moved at a glacial pace, so it took around 45 minutes to get a freakin' sandwich.
We got complimentary glasses and the tasting room at the end of the tour was a highlight. They had high tech machinery for doling out the shots which was super cool. The flavored bourbons are tasty too - they had a green apple and black cherry and maple, etc...good stuff. I've never really consumed much of the Jim Beam line of products, but might start. They do produce more than 50% of the world's bourbon and interestingly half of that goes to Australia.
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