The reservation timeframe recently changed. At this time, I think you have to be 90 days out. It's a "luck of the draw" what the allocated bottle will be. It's announced when you are waiting in line for the place to open, approx 8:15am that day. Did the Hard Hat Tour and Taylor Tour in April. Both excellent and well work the effort and great that they are free! Staff are all great and the old buildings are interesting. Agree about the Blanton's! Good luck....

Yes, You can always just drop in to visit the gift shop! We frequently just go to the gift shop to pick up bottles of bourbon or branded glassware.

We used a guide to handle our tours. Frankly, we were glad we did. Our guide used our vehicle and did the driving. We enjoyed the ride. he provided outstanding history and local color throughout. We were free to taste bourbons everywhere we went. He handled the timing, planning (with our input), etc. We were happy to have hired Bob White with Kentucky Guides who has a Facebook page, Kentucky Bourn=bon Distillery Tours. Btw, I highly recommend Bob White, as well.

This question is not something I can answer. Maybe an email to Buffalo Trace.

Sorry I cannot answer that?

Thanks for reaching out. We do not have a bar or dining option on site at this time. We recommend signing up for the waitlist for the date you were looking to visit. If we receive a cancellation on a tour/tasting experience or a tasting only experience, we work from that list to fill the spots.

Thanks for reaching out. We have checked with the Distillery Team and we actually use all of our alcohol that is produced from distillation either with product or to supplement our fuel stream for our boilers.

The only bottle available for purchase while we were there was Blanton's. The tasting was a vodka, Buffalo trace, Eagle Rare and Bourbon Creme. We did the basic tour because the hard hat tour was full. You don't get a chance to see the distilling process but you get to see the storage warehouses and the bottling process. When we went to Barton 1792 later in our trip we were able to see the distillers. I would highly recommend this tour.

I don't think you could go wrong on any of the tours. Woodford does a very nice job as well as Buffalo Trace and Evan Williams.

They make Buffalo Trace, Eagle Rare and you can taste them. They are also involved with Blanton’s and Pappi, but you can not taste them. They are involved with a bunch more including vodka.