A Frankfort distillery with three guided tours (the Trace Tour, the Hard Hat Tour and the Old Taylor Tour), walk-in tastings and a gift shop.
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113 Great Buffalo Trace Frankfort, KY 40601
The distillery serves alcohol at its tastings. Its visit page says tours and tastings are complimentary seven days a week, with reservations recommended and limited walk-up space each day. It lists distillery and gift shop hours of 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday and 11 am to 5 pm Sunday, closed Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Opening hours, admission, accessibility, and booking requirements can vary. Confirm the details that matter to your visit directly with the venue.
Only what Buffalo Trace Distillery says on its own pages. Rules can change, so ask the venue if it matters.
Kids
Kids welcome“The Trace Tour is open to visitors of all ages. All other tours are open to guests that are 12 years of age and older and accompanied by an adult. Guests may also utilize our playground facilities daily between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.”
Dogs
Dogs welcome in some areas“Pets are welcome inside the Gift Shop & Visitor Center, but not permitted on tours.”
Tours
“Trace Tour: 'Open to all ages'. Hard Hat Tour and Old Taylor Tour: 'Ages 12+ only'. 'All guests tasting or purchasing alcoholic products must present a valid ID at check-in.'”
Allocated bourbon means the bottles a distillery releases in small numbers, so a store gets a few at a time and most people never see one on the shelf. Pappy Van Winkle, Blanton's, Weller, E.H. Taylor, Eagle Rare and the yearly limited editions are the usual names, and buying one at the suggested retail price in a Lexington store almost never happens. Lexington still has five real ways to get close, listed here in the order they are most likely to work this week: a pour at a bourbon bar, Buffalo Trace's daily rotating bottle in Frankfort, bottles the distilleries within an hour sell only on site, free-entry draws and drawings, and the vintage shelf at a licensed vintage spirits seller. Every fact comes from the seller's or distillery's own page, with the date it was read. Every tasting is 21 and over with ID, and the person driving does not taste.