by If you took one of the many different complimentary tours offered at the Buffalo Trace Distillery this past year, you probably weren’t alone. Buffalo Trace Distillery announced this week that it hosted a record 294,000 visitors last year and that visitation at the National Historic Landmark distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky has increased by 466 percent since 2010, and 35 percent in the last year.
To accommodate the growing interest in both drinking bourbon and seeing how it’s made, Buffalo Trace is spending $1.2 billion to improve and enlarge its Franklin County campus. This includes a second expansion of the visitors’ center, new 22-foot cookers, new 92,000 gallon fermenters, and six new bourbon aging warehouses holding 58,000 barrels each, with more warehouses on the way.
The Hard Hat Tour, one of six free tours currently being offered at Buffalo Trace Distillery, shows you behind the scenes of the new cooker and fermenter expansion. For more information about tours and to make reservations click here.
For more information, read the Buffalo Trace news release here.
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