Celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival This Week!

Photo by Pam Spaulding, photographer for KENTUCKY BOURBON COUNTRY

The 22nd annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival kicks off today in Bardstown. And what better way to celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month than in the heart of Kentucky’s bourbon country?

We’ve assembled some of our favorite bourbon titles for a little reading on the rocks. Here’s what you should be reading this month:

Susan Reigler

Michael R. Veach

Buy the books on KentuckyPress.com:

KENTUCKY BOURBON COUNTRY: The Essential Travel Guide by Susan Reigler, Photographs by Pam Spaulding

THE KENTUCKY BOURBON COCKTAIL BOOK by Joy Perrine and Susan Reigler

THE KENTUCKY MINT JULEP by Joe Nickell

THE OLD FASHIONED: An Essential Guide to the Original Whiskey Cocktail by Albert W. A. Schmid

KENTUCKY MOONSHINE by David W. Maurer

THE KENTUCKY BOURBON COOKBOOK by Albert W. A. Schmid

 KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY: An American Heritage by Michael R. Veach

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF BOURBON by Gerald Carson

KENTUCKY BOURBON: The Early Years of Whiskey-making by Henry G. Crowgey

Quotable Potable: KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY

Praise has been plentiful for Michael R. Veach’s new book, Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage and we can’t help but share some of the kind words below.

**Don’t forget! Enter our giveaway by Friday at 1 pm to win a copy of Veach’s book!

They call him Mr. Bourbon…

via LEO Weekly

Bourbon 101

via Drinkhacker.com

Lore, Legend, Fact, and Fiction

via Ace Weekly