Our Silent Bourbon Barrel Auction is live now and will run through our Fall Harvest Festival on October 7th when winners will be announced. During this time, participants can place their bids on our bidding website, with each barrel up for auction being accompanied by information on the artist and charity they chose.

Stepping behind a bar can be intimidating for those who have never worked in the service industry, but the desire to make, muddle, stir and shake up your very own cocktail is a common one. To a mixology novice, a bartender can seem like a magician — whipping up potent potions with a little shake here and a big stir there.

In 1964, the US government acknowledged that bourbon whiskey was a distinctive product of the United States, and laid out specific ways to produce and label the brown elixir. And though this resolution made it official, bourbon has always had a place in American history, and in the pride we have for the nation.