Books and bourbon are just part of the buzz behind new Jim Beam Stillhouse
Call it ironic timing or a wake-up call to a gin drinker (me), but a good chunk of my freelance work lately has been devoted to writing about two of Kentucky’s most important bourbon towns, Bardstown...
View ArticleAlltech National Horse Show Oct. 30 through Nov. 4 at Kentucky Horse Park...
The 2012 Alltech National Horse Show returns to Kentucky Horse Park’s Alltech Arena in Lexington Oct. 30 through Nov. 4. We can’t think of another top-end horsey set event that has both world-class...
View ArticleAlltech Brewing to sell Kentucky Coffee Bourbon Barrel Ale next month
While with a tour group admiring Lexington’s brand-spankin’-new Town Branch Distillery last Saturday, in bounded a 60-ish man wearing running tights below running shorts, a jacket and a ball cap. A...
View ArticleLexington Chef Jeremy Ashby teams with Czech chef to win $5K in inaugural...
Author’s note: Before you read the following piece, make note of two things: the international scope of this contest; and the potential this one contest has for turning into something truly significant...
View ArticleAwesome Inc.’s awesome events: Helping raise the profile of the Lexington...
One of the many topics that keeps getting tossed around at Monday Morning Open Coffee Startup Therapy for Entrepreneurs Who Love Coffee is the need to find ways to raise the profile of the startup...
View ArticleSteve Coomes: Looming burrito brawl between Chipotle and Qdoba will prove tasty
Louisvillians will soon get tableside seats for the long-awaited burrito battle between Qdoba Mexican Grill and Chipotle Mexican Grill. According to Business First, the restaurant will open sometime...
View ArticleAy Caramba! Stunning new Coba Cocina restaurant unveiled in Lexington
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Last Saturday’s soft opening dinner at Coba Cocina delivered on the promises its three owners gave me months ago during interviews for another story. All three gushed, saying it “is a...
View ArticleSpring Break: Short trips, great food and bourbon, all within 2 hours
Have you notice that there’s no cool dateline on any of our Insider Louisville pieces this week? No … MIAMI, FORT LAUDERDALE, PANAMA CITY, etc. because we’re here, still pasty white as everyone else...
View ArticleZoning approval puts Beer Engine back on track for 2013 opening
Following a lengthy zoning approval process, Beer Engine, a craft brewery in Danville Kentucky, is back on track for 2013 opening in Germantown. Last summer, owner Brian Holton set about launching the...
View ArticleHeads up: Lexington, Ky., is fast becoming a terrific restaurant town, Part 1
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a two-part look at Kentucky’s second-largest, fastest growing, city.) The last time I went to downtown Lexington for any other purpose than a rock...
View ArticleBlue Stallion Brewing Company: Lexington’s beer community adds European craft...
There’s a new beer on the block. Blue Stallion Brewing Co. makes it four impressive breweries making craft beer in Lexington, Ky., along with West Sixth Brewing, Kentucky Ale and Country Boy Brewing....
View ArticleLearning to code iOS: Awesome day at Awesome Inc. U
On Friday, I made an iPhone app. I don’t want to brag, but it’s really, really good. It’s blue, which I like, and it has a map and a fully functioning web browser that can be customized to my liking. …...
View ArticleDine Lexington! restaurant week Oct. 29 to Nov. 3 during Kentucky Gathering
In Louisville, we have 502 Restaurant Weeks and our restaurants have gotten repeated national coverage and – let’s just say it – praise. Lexington’s restaurant sector is just now bringing together the...
View ArticleShocker: Lexington, NOT Louisville, makes Atlantic’s list of America’s Top 25...
Insider Louisville has, since its earliest days, kept its finger on the pulse of the startup/tech community. These past few days have been particularly busy, with XLerateHealth’s Demo Day two days ago...
View ArticleSeizing the Manufacturing Moment, Pt. 2: Lexington and Louisville not keeping...
Outsourcing is dead. But for Louisville and Lexington to take advantage of the 21st Century American Industrial Revolution, a lot has to change. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and Lexington Mayor Jim...
View ArticleSobering data: Lexington blows an 86 on Men’sHealth.com ‘Sloshed Cities’...
Here’s something to ponder as you transition from turkey to Wild Turkey during the Thanksgiving holiday. Louisville is the center of the bourbon world, or more accurately, the front gate leading to the...
View ArticleRecovery Station competes for $20,000 match funding in Global Startup Challenge
If you were at Open Coffee this week, you learned a lot about Recovery Station, the sports recovery beverage dispenser company that won Startup Weekend Lexington last weekend. If you missed Open...
View ArticleThe chase for West Sixth Christmas Ale is ‘Pappy-esque’
Plenty of breweries release Christmas beers every year; I recently enjoyed a delicious one from New Albanian Brewing Company called Naughty Claus. But it’s the West Sixth Christmas Ale that has...
View Article‘Entrepreneur Immersion’ field trip: Heading to Lexington and Awesome Inc.
There has been a lot of talk in 2013 of building bridges between the Louisville and Lexington entrepreneurial communities. In an article on Insider Louisville yesterday, Enterprise Corps Executive...
View Article‘Own the room with smarts’: Lexington Mayor Gray adds New York City data...
“You’ve got to own the room with smarts,” Lexington Mayor Jim Gray said to the Entrepreneur Immersion Field Trip to Lexington. “I’m not gonna apologize for smart people.” Mayor Gray showed up at...
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