Bulleit Distilling Co. Visitor Experience — Attraction in Shelbyville

This was our first stop for my friend's bachelorette bourbon tour. I'm not really a bourbon drinker, but I had still had fun!

This was honestly maybe my least favorite of the three tours I went on (behind Woodford Reserve and Angel's Envy), but it was a positive experience overall that I'd recommend if you're interested in bourbon or really any kind of alcohol production.

Our guide was Brittany. Her tour speeches felt a little canned/unnatural but she was pleasant and funny and clearly very knowledgeable as none of our tour's questions tripped her up at all.

For this tour, we got to board a bus and see a little bit of the grounds, see some of the production, and learn about Bulleit's sustainability measures. That last part was unique and I appreciated it.

Our tasting consisted of four pours. This tour had little "scent clouds" in small metal tins that we were coached to shake-sniff-sip-sniff. It changed the taste of the bourbon in unique and pleasant ways. I'd never done that before and it was fun.

After that, it was on to the clean and attractive gift shop and out to take group pictures. The grounds were pretty and so was the inside so it was easy to get cute photos.

Again, since I'm not really a bourbon drinker, it all tasted more or less the same to me. But I had a good time and would definitely encourage anyone with an interest in this kind of thing to...

Went there expecting a tour of the distillery, as Bulleit bourbon is one of my favorites, and I was really looking forward to seeing how it was made. Unfortunately, either due to covid or perhaps their insurance, there was no distillery tours when I was there in late February, or early March, I forget. For $16, they offer a tasting of the various Bourbons they produce. They obviously used to give distillery tours as there was shuttle buses parked in the parking lot at the visitor center, with the actual distillery behind and up on the hill behind The visitor center building. I guess my timing was bad. I asked if the $16 cost of tasting could be applied towards the purchase of anything in the retail store, and the answer was no. If you didn't understand that, I was asking if after the tasting would they offer a $16 discount on a bottle of bourbon, but they didn't. Since I had already had most of their Bourbons, I just pulled one off the shelf that I hadn't had before, the 10-year aged version, paid for it and left. Later that day, I ended up at the Buffalo Trace distillery and took the extensive free tour, which I...

Every year my wife and I make the 8 hour drive to Kentucky to enjoy the Bourbon on the Banks Festival and to enjoy touring a few different bourbon distilleries. This year we wanted to tour the Bulleit Distillery. We tried to purchase last minute tickets online for a tour but they were sold out (poor planning on MY part). But I said let’s at least stop by and visit the gift shop. Once there, I decided I’d go ask if they had any last minute cancellations for two. To my surprise they did. Our tour guide was “Claire, with the red hair” (her words not mine). Claire was very knowledgeable about the entire process of making the different products, the distilleries origins & history. She took the time to answer every one’s questions and even funny jokes throughout the entire tour. So if you’re ever in the area and you want an enjoyable experience learning about bourbon? Go see “Claire with the Red hair”. She was...