Written By TravelingMom with Teens Saturday, April 11, 2009 16:38
Take a tour of Louisville, Ky.’s distilleries (with a free taste) or spend the day with the kids doing kid-friendlier but still free things.
1. American Printing House: The American Printing House for the Blind is the world's largest nonprofit organization creating educational, workplace, and independent living products and services for people who are visually impaired. Tours are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday - Thursday, except holidays.
2. Rebecca-Ruth Candies: Founded in 1919 by Rebecca Gooch and Ruth Booe at a time when few women ventured into business. Ruth is known as the originator of Bourbon Chocolates. Free factory tours Monday – Saturday from 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. January - October. Tours include free samples.
3. Cathedral of the Assumption: One of the oldest cathedrals in continuous use in America, the cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville. The church, finished in 1852, was recently renovated.
4. Yew Dell Gardens: Yew Dell Gardens is the former home, garden, and arboretum of the late commercial nurseryman Theodore Klein. His unique collection of rare garden plants, display gardens, and unique architectural features is being developed into a major horticultural display, education, and research center. April through November.
5. Indian Creek Winery: This Georgetown, Ind., winery started with just a house and 35 acres of fine soil and decided to plant a few rows of grapes. Making wine was just a hobby then, but it grew into Indian Creek Winery. Free wine tastings.
6. Huber Orchard and Winery: Indiana’s first distillery, Huber's in Starlight, Ind., has over 550 acres of farmland on which they grow fruits, vegetables, Christmas trees, pumpkins, and grapes. They have a children's farm park, farm market, cheese shop, ice cream factory, winery, gift shop, banquet facility.
7. Jim Beam American Outpost: The famous bourbon-maker's Tourist Center is housed in a replica of an old tobacco barn, where the free tours provide insight into the centuries-old art of distillery; an authentic and one-of-a-kind moonshine still, believed to be the oldest in America, can be found behind the Outpost. Monday-Saturday 9-4:30, Sunday,1-4.
8. Makers Mark: Feel as though you have stepped back in time. The Samuels family has been making whiskey since 1840. It's the oldest continuously operating distillery that is a National Historic Landmark. Tours Monday-Saturday year-round 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Sunday 1:30-3:30 p.m. hourly on the half hour. Open holidays except Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years.
9. Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center: Home of the Heaven Hill, Evan Williams, and Elijah Craig bourbons. The largest and one of the few family owned distilleries in the country. Free tours Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m., Sunday, noon – 4 p.m. (March - December only).
10. Wild Turkey Distillery: Free tours Monday-Saturday at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
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Rebecca Ruth Candies Tour was not free when we took it last year, nor do they inform you beforehand whether they're actually working on the line or anything, so when we went, we just got to see a bunch of machines not running.
Yew Dell Gardens is free for Seniors and 12 and under children, but others pay.
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