Pursuit Spirits Opens Bourbon Experience in Butchertown
Pursuit Spirits has its new whiskey experience up and running in Louisville, and it’s a fine addition to bourbon country.
The hands-on, intimate bottling course – which the brand refers to as The Whole Shebang – puts visitors in charge of tasting, pulling bourbon from the barrel using a whiskey thief, bottling, corking and labeling, all in one experience. But it’s probably the interaction with the Bourbon Pursuit team that most makes the experience memorable.
From the outset during my visit, a small gathering of visitors huddled for a tasting of Pursuit United spirits and a thorough history of the brand and its team. From there, the group were seated for the main, unguided tasting. The experience featured small samples (roughly half an ounce) of eight whiskeys – six bourbon, two rye – for the purpose of finding the one that best pleases one’s palate.
Each of the bourbons was the same blend, but finished in varying barrels from several distilleries which previously held a variety of mashbills and carried varying levels of char, leading to a variety of flavor profiles. Each one is coded to signify varying characteristics.
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