Today we are going to talk about the experience at Jim Beam.  Since we are from Louisville we have the privilege to find time to go on distillery tours all around the area.  We can't help but notice that most people are sleeping on one of our favorite distilleries Jim Beam, so lets talk all about Jim Beam today.  We were also able to book a dinner with the Jim Beam supper club for the release of Knob Creek 18 year.  Spoiler if you get the chance to book a supper club event do it.  It was full of amazing food, drinks, and some one on one with with Fred and Freddie Koe.

Everyone knows toasted bourbon is the new craze and distilleries have been jumping on the hype train for the last few years.  So we taste several of these bourbons to decide which one is the best for your money.  Along the way we talk about is toasted bourbon good or bad for the industry and what exactly is a toasted bourbon?

We decided to go out on a limb and try some bourbons that we consider gimmicky.  These distilleries are using unique ways to age their bourbon or sourced bourbon in some cases to help set themselves apart from other companies.  When you are new to the game you have to do something to set yourself apart from the other guys.  The line up for tonight is Jefferson's Ocean aged at sea, Blade and Bow, O.H. Ingram, and Oak and Eden.  Let's see if any of these unique aging process make us excited to try another sip.

We decided to go on a tour of Copper & Kings brandy distillery.  If you know anything about Copper & Kings it is probably from their amazing collaboration with Bardstown Bourbon Company.  Together these two distilleries made what may be our favorite collaboration to date which is BBC finished in Copper & Kings apple brandy barrels.  Well Copper & Kings has decided to do the same thing with 6yr MGP at their own distillery.  The catch is you can only get this bourbon if you take the tour and bottle it yourself..... twist my arm why don't you.  Heather and I decided to do the tour and tell you what we thought about it, their other products, and you will have to find out if Heather decided to bottle her own barrel or not.  

Welcome to our first episode of Beyond Bourbon.