Local distillery joins the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour

BOWLING GREEN, Ky- Dueling Grounds Distillery has joined The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour .

The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour is undergoing a major expansion with four distilleries joining along with distinctive new gifts that visitors can earn for each phase of the trip.

From the start in 2013 to releasing of their signature Linkumpinch Bourbon in 2018, Dueling Grounds Distillery has had a goal of becoming part of the Craft Tour.

It is now the only distillery on the Craft Bourbon Trail in this area.

Dueling Grounds is the southernmost distillery in Kentucky, with some visitors coming from out of state, ringing revenue into Simpson County.

Santos Garcia, Tasting Room manager, said that the Bourbon Trail Craft Tour drew around 300,000 people last year.

“We had a huge group of people here in the very beginning that supported us, wanted us to be here, their signatures are actually on our very first barrel that we filled. That will actually hit 4 years old next month so we will open that soon for a single barrel,” Garcia said.

In addition to dueling grounds, there are 19 other distilleries part of the bourbon trail craft tour.