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Georgetown, Kentucky.

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Bourbon and West Bank.

Did you know Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the U.S. except Alaska?

Is Alaska still a state?

There's 90,000 miles of streams and dozens of rivers.

It's also quite famous for some other liquids, those which flow from a barrel.

That being beers, bourbons and wine.

Many of the world's best known distilleries can be found right here in the Bluegrass State.

And interestingly enough, pretty darn close to many of our lakes, rivers and streams.

We're here to take you on an expedition of the secrets and histories of our intricate waterways while visiting Kentucky's distilleries, breweries and wineries.

I'm Carrie.

And I'm Kyle, and we are two Kentuckians who are pretty proud of our state.

And we share a sip of what the Commonwealth has to offer on.

Well, hello, Carrie.

Hey, Kyle.

What exactly are we doing here today?

Well, I thought we'd take a little time to start the show today.

Right.

We are definitely writing, but we're not writing in a boat.

No, but you are on Royal, and this here is Dealer, and we're at the Whispering Woods riding stables in Georgetown.

Right.

Well, that's something different, I'll say.

Where are we headed?

Well, since we were in the heart of horse country, I thought we could take a little ride on our way to Elkhorn Creek.

So we're going to the Elkhorn Creek.

What exactly is going on there?

Well, there's a nice paddle fest going on today.

I thought we'd check out.

Paddle fest?

Yeah.

Sounds like something they'd have beer at.

Actually, I think there is some.

In fact, speaking of beer, I was thinking I'd hang out with one of your beer making buddies for a while today.

Oh, that sounds pretty cool.

Well, you know what?

I'm going to go fishing.

Really?

Oh, you know why not?

I see you fall in numbers.

Almost decapitated just then.

Yeah, You know, and then I think I'm going to go over to Bourbon 30 and learn a little bit about how to blend bourbon.

And I'm going to get the blended hands.

I and then go to local feed and cook something maybe.

I don't know.

So you want to, like, maybe head over to country Boy, after all this excursion here in Georgetown and have a beer.

That sounds great, Kyle.

But before you do the trail, boss gave me a little challenge.

A challenge?

Yeah.

Another one of these?

Yeah.

You did so good on the last one.

We have to do this.

Quite.

This ministering man made it big here.

We through the streets of Lebanon town to find some royal liquid history and learn how he quenched their thirst in more ways than one.

Does that mean.

I don't know.

Maybe we'll find out in the crew quarters of concrete today.

All right, let's go find out.

After you.

Let's go.

Rough.

Good afternoon.

Tom Fraser.

Tom Fraser.

Kyle Lake.

Good to see you, George.

Good to see you.

You guys look like people that know what to do with whatever I'm holding here.

And you've been experiencing this.

Can you hold that?

Looks like you might need some help.

I've got this book this guy wrote standing in the middle of water.

I think he.

You know what?

This is your book.

That's my book.

I know how to do this fishing business.

I do indeed.

You've only caught crawfish and minnows, apparently.

But you can do this.

That's right.

Well, we've got to talk about that fish.

The politicians here right now, he is the expert.

Well, this is a beautiful place.

We're here in Georgetown, Kentucky, on the North African Creek, North Elkhorn.

So there's more than one elkhorn.

There is a South Elkhorn and a north Elkhorn.

And they come together at Frankfort and it's called Elkhorn.

And the Elkhorn Creek is 99 miles long.

99 miles.

If it's 100 miles long, it would be a river.

We have a 99 miles.

You only need one more mile.

You can have somebody dig that.

I mean, that's easy.

That's a weekend project.

And you got the Elkhorn River.

It changes everything.

You got to redo all your maps, all your street names, you know?

Yeah, we like this.

Probably treatment.

It is pretty good.

So.

So back behind us, we got I mean, we got beautiful.

We got paddleboarders out here.

I don't know what they're.

They're on surfboard paddles, kayaking or something.

What?

Hey, where'd you get those things?

Oh, that's fantastic.

I got a friend who likes to do that kind of stuff.

I'll tell her about it.

Carry cool paddling and.

Well, that's.

That's pretty.

But it's beautiful out here.

I mean, and I assume that with this thing, this device and what you all have, that this is a fishing point as well, right?

A best fishing place in Kentucky.

Best.

So what's in there?

What do you.

We have smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, crappie bream, rare earth and even some rough.

These go carp and the gar and those type.

You can eat all that stuff, all but the garden carp.

You don't want to eat them a hungry you are really you got to be really fishing is is a thing I mean people are sitting here to relax, they're out there, they're putting stuff like this on a hook.

I don't know.

I thought someone told me, you can eat these things and maybe at the end of the day, I probably have caught enough that I don't have to eat this.

But probably not.

So you guys are going to show me how to do this, right?

I mean, really, it's you put that on, you got to hook at Worm now.

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Caught something.

And then you take this and you throw it in the river, right?

That's right.

Now, one thing is important before we throw it in, you got spit on.

You know that's important to you.

So why don't you spin on it before you put the worm on it?

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Now.

And now what do I do to catch it?

It's just.

Well, you turn around, face.

Oh, no, I'm.

I push it forward.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, push it.

And when you make it out, let it out and it'll go out.

All right.

I'm going to be a border.

You better watch out now.

You throw this underhand.

Underhand?

I don't know how to do that.

All right, watch out now.

Here we go.

We're underhand in holding this black button.

That act right there.

People have that magic.

If you got any minute now, how long does it take exactly before that back goes?

What?

You know, Because I got somewhere to be.

I mean, I got to be at a bourbon place here in a little bit, about a week.

Maybe we can leave the pole here.

Go home for three h. How you doing?

It's awesome.

Great to see you again.

Great.

Well, tell me, where are we today?

We are on the lovely Elkhorn Creek here in Georgetown, Scott County, one of my favorite places in the world to be, I believe, the most undervalued resource here in Georgetown.

Where else would you rather be than here?

Right?

Yeah.

You couldn't ask for a better day.

That's right.

Well, tell me a little bit about the airport.

You grew up in these waters, didn't you?

I did.

I'm from northern part of Scott County here, but I've been fishing the creek here my entire life.

It's one of, like I said, one of my favorite places to be.

It's so undervalued.

The fishing here is awesome.

Sceneries, great weather you're into here.

If you're a host guy, you know you're going to be going to come here to have some good luck with the fish.

If you're just a person that wants to come down and check out the scenery, the wildlife, whatever you may run into, it's so awesome.

There's several spots.

You can access it right in downtown Georgetown.

So easy.

It's too easy not to be on all summer long.

D.H. You grew up here in Georgetown, but I understand you've done some wandering around the world.

That's right.

You know, for for me, I'm Scott Carney, kid.

I was Scott Carney High School went to Georgetown College right here in Georgetown, obviously a week after that for grad school.

After grad school.

I had the opportunity, though, to go to Japan via the sister city relationship between Georgetown, Kentucky and to Harvard, Japan, due to the fact that we have the Toyota factory here.

Really the Toyota factory is into horror, really close to Toyota City.

So they allowed Georgetown College graduates to go there to actually teach in the public school system.

So applied for the program was accepted in 2006, went to Japan.

I had a great time and just fell in love with the whole culture and the country.

But I also met a guy that was an expat from Oxford, Ohio, that started a brewery there, and I really got into homebrewing.

There was infected by his passion for craft beer.

He kind of charged just a very Japanese way of saying that you go back to to Kentucky.

What are you guys going to do?

I was there with soon to be partner Nathan Cobb, which was in Japan with me.

And we're like, we want to start a brewery, just like everybody who's ever been into craft beer, home Brewed said.

And then it's crazy.

But a few short years later, we open our doors in Lexington, February 10th of 2012, and the country boy was born, and the dream was started in the steel coast.

And up to this point right now, I'd one minute I'm asked, one day I may wake up.

I don't know when that's going to be, but it's been a wild ride.

And to bring everything full circle, we opened up our facility in Georgetown.

We broke ground March 30th of 2016.

And now you're making the beer out of the water from Georgetown.

We say all the time, you know, we want to be good stewards of the resources that we've been given.

And, you know, the majority of beer is water.

So we've got to be very careful about taking care of our local resources, of what we're putting in the water.

Don't throw your cigaret butts in storm drain banks.

They end up in the creek, you know, dispose of things like oil and things like that that need to be disposed of properly.

Don't put them in the water because when we pollute the the resources here that are so vital, Delta County, it hurts everybody.

You're going to show us around a little later today, aren't you?

Yeah.

How about after?

Slowly, I'll swing by the brewery.

We're going to have some folks over and I going to be drinking a few beers.

We've got a couple new ones out there.

You'll find something that I think.

Well, I promised I'd buy him a beer, so I think we can do that.

You know, he's.

He deserves one.

He works hard.

And.

Hello, Kyle.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing well.

Welcome to Bourbon 30 Spirits Craft Distillery.

What a cool place to be and a cool town.

What do we got going on here today?

We actually have people fly in from all over the U.S. to come here to do what's called private barrel selections.

Oh, yeah.

So it's very delightful.

They'll come in and we'll pop some bombs off some barrels and just have a wonderful time picking something that's unique to them.

So what you're saying before we're going to have a little science today.

Yes, we are.

And we can blend something like a downstream bourbon out of these kind of this this stuff here.

But what I like where you're going with it.

So this is an 11 and a half year old whiskey.

All right.

So this is a whiskey thief.

We're going to use this kind of works like a straw.

And take straw.

It is.

So you know how you have a domino die, right?

Do you know that?

Yeah.

Here you go.

Look.

Okay, here you go.

You know, you actually have a dominant nostril to this AIDS in helping you identify the bourbon profiles in flavors.

One side, you're going to pick up more ethyl alcohol, and the other side you're going to pick up more of the flavors and notes and the taste.

This this one, it's this one.

Pretty cool.

Okay, so this is another 11 and a half year old whiskey.

We're going to draw a sample from this and you're going to compare it to this and you'll be like, okay.

Same age.

Right?

Different barrel, same age, same MASH, bill, everything.

Wow.

Okay.

Already a different.

Profile, remember?

Totally different.

Wow.

Right.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

That's my good doctor.

I think I just suck some up there.

That burns a lot.

So this is a four year old Kentucky bourbon for you.

So this young baby, it is what.

Is so good.

So if we get down to it and we're going to blend one, how do you go about it?

All right.

So what we're going to do is we're going to look for a baseline.

Okay?

It's got some body to it, right?

You know, we want some body now.

Then we're going to look at the front and the end.

The problem is I like a good front end and I like a good back end.

I do, too.

You know, it's about the balance.

Mm hmm.

You know, sometimes I like the back end better, and sometimes I like the front end better.

Yeah, Just, you know, it just depends on the mood.

What?

Depends on the direction you want to head through.

All right.

I like this is a bass.

Let's do it.

I think.

I think the bourbon whiskey is a bass.

Okay.

All right.

There's one.

How about if we go to this one next?

Or do you want to stay here?

Let's do a balance of this one and an ounce of this one, okay?

And see what happens.

All right.

You seem to know what you're doing.

Are you sure you haven't done this before?

Not on TV.

You handle that quite well.

Now, what I need you to do is very carefully pour this into there.

Carefully.

Very careful.

Put the high dromedary in there.

Put it in here slowly.

And we are going to.

Bring out.

All the way down.

Oh, I put too much in this time.

Now see?

Can you see where it says proof.

Oh, look at that.

How cool is that?

So we're at 110, we're 110 110.

So right now what proof do you want it to be?

200 is.

Not going to happen.

90.

We can do that.

Okay, you know what?

We've got some royal spring water.

Is this it?

That is it.

Well, it looks like regular water to me, but yeah.

It should be.

All right.

So you are going to put a little bit of Royal spring.

Beaker here.

And you're going to approve it down, which you're going to add a little bit of water.

So now you are setting and you're setting a 90.

That was good.

Are you sure you haven't done this before?

Oh, yeah.

My bathtub.

All right, All right.

Now, how about we siphon it old school out of the barrel?

Siphon it?

Oh, yeah.

So I get my gasoline.

All right, All right.

So I'm going to hook you up here.

There's your bottle.

You want to set that on the floor?

There?

On the floor.

Okay.

I put the House floor.

Why not do everything?

Oh, school on the floor.

The bottles on the floor.

Okay, so we put this in here.

We're going to pull the body out first.

You'll see it come all the way out and up through here.

I'm for.

A little water and we put it back in there.

With the infamous Royal spring.

How much would you go to do?

We do.

You are at 90.

90?

Yep.

We're going to see what your craft is now.

This is the downstream bourbon 30.

I like that.

That is pretty solid reach.

All right.

You, sir, have done very well.

Jeff.

I thought you've been useless in my quest for my riddle answer.

But you've been magical in my quest for making this bourbon.

And what we're going to do now is head to the local feed and they can make.

Is it good?

Okay, Because I'm hungry.

I need to soak up a little bit of this, but we're going to see if they can make a cocktail out of the downstream bourbon dirty.

Fantastic.

All right, now.

Come back and see us.

You can count on it.

This is a cool cold by.

Heart.

Hi, ladies.

I'm Carrie.

Well, I care.

I care.

You guys have a lot of folks on the river today.

What's going on?

Well, we are doing the Alcorn float Fest here.

It's a partnership between Georgetown, Scott County Parks and Recreation and Tourism.

And we're just all out here having a good time.

You guys couldn't ask for more.

Beautiful weather.

Today is gorgeous.

And there's lots of folks out today with all kinds of floats.

It is absolutely beautiful.

We are so thrilled that the weather held out for us, even though there was a chance of rain.

But everybody has come out and is having a good time.

Well, tell me a little bit about Float Fest.

Where did the idea come from?

Well, the idea came from some of the recreation managers sitting around a table talking about some ideas on how we could utilize some of our natural resources here in Scott County.

And most of our parks actually, but up to the Elkhorn.

And we kind of talked about those ideas and that's how it came together.

And we formed a partnership to come up with the Elkhorn Creek process to float best starts and stops in Peninsula Park.

That is correct.

So we've got two entries, one a good two and a half hours.

The other one takes you about an hour and a half until you get to the exit point.

But you are welcome to get back on and do it again.

You know, you can just keep on going all day long.

Well, what a perfect place for it.

I mean, it just that nice, perfect horseshoe bend you can take out and put in right next to each other.

I expect you'll have a lot of folks do this, even with that float fest, we don't think that a lot of people came out and floated before.

But we do know that they're coming down here and utilizing this water source to kayak and canoe and to fish because this is great fishing down here.

But we're hoping now that people have seen the water, they'll come out, too.

You know, that's something a whole family can do, Even if you don't have a canoe kayak to use easily portable, you can jump in any time a unicorn go by.

Earlier, in a large flight, we got about 268 people out on the water today.

Obviously, we're really wanting it to grow next year.

Ladies, it was great floating with you.

I think I'm going to head downstream and see who else I can float into you.

Well, have fun.

Enjoy.

Thank you, guys.

Have a great day.

You know, from safety to travel.

How are you doing?

Doing well, Sir Justin Thompson.

I'm chef owner here at Local Feed.

It's like to have you.

There's all kinds of food here.

I assume that you're somewhat responsible for this.

On a roundabout way.

In a roundabout way.

Well, it looks fantastic.

What?

This local feed I've heard about.

Tell me about.

This is your whole concoction Here it is a good chocolate.

I think that's the perfect way to put it about this.

It's kind of on one tablecloth majority of my life.

And a few years ago we decided that we wanted to open our own place and we really wanted to find a unique place and a unique building.

And we found it here in Kentucky.

And it was all we're doing here is really what we wanted to do, feel like we needed to make something that made the everyday person comfortable and they can also explore and go outside the box.

And we're supporting local farmers and this is local food.

Tell me about local food.

Where does this come?

This is all comes from the garden out back.

I said, Not every bit of it.

There is a garden out back.

We try to pull some from there, but we also really rely on local farmers and anything that really, really, really leans on the idea of sustainability.

I think that it's a it's a huge word that people use and they don't totally understand.

I think that there's a large part of it that people associate with just a certain geographical location, and that's one part of it.

I think it's very important to support your local farmers and to put the money back into your community.

This is all from right here in this area.

That's pretty neat.

I mean, to be able to come in and source these types, Right?

So what do we have here?

I mean, we've got it looks like some chicken wings.

Oh, man, that's good.

Yes.

Kind of hitting the board here.

We tried to do a little little collage.

So here we've got truck beats be locally sourced with pickled onions and a cave aged blue cheese done by Kenny's farmhouse.

Also, local here, we've got a local free range chicken wings that we're actually running as a special this evening.

Special board is a huge thing for us.

We try to go international fusion, we try to hit the corners a little bit and and give you a little bit of excitement.

And then another big thing for us is whole animal butchery.

So in whole animal butchery, we're getting our big cuts that are giving you your chops and your steaks and your common goods, but then you've got everything else.

So we do a lot of cured meats.

So here we've got a chicken liver paté, we've got a dairy.

So this is cured legs just paddle down with a little bit of brandy.

Over here, we've done a pork tureen.

Housemade bacon, ground pork, maraschino cherries down the middle.

So these are these are some of the cured meats that we do.

And this is something that we rotate.

We've got several things that we're always working on.

And then obviously we have these wonderful bourbons here.

I understand you all have a few bourbons back inside as well.

We do.

So when we opened up, one thing that I really wanted to make a highlight here was being a craft cocktail program.

We've got an awesome mixologist back there that makes great drinks.

He's always reading and he's always learning.

Just a little bit ago, I was next door, almost next door, blending.

What I like to think is actually a pretty snazzy bourbon myself.

I think we can go in there and get that mixologist and make some crazy drinkable.

I think that's got to be the plan.

We should dig into this and then run in there and check out that mixology thing.

So let's hear here.

Take these wings.

All right.

So right here we are building the hellfire and limestone, let's say bourbon based cocktail, right now we're featuring a blend that's been concocted down at the Bourbon 30 Distillery right down the street from us here at local faves.

To start with the build, we use a half ounce of lemon juice using a full ounce of the ginger sirup then built from scratch.

Ginger root that's been juiced.

Makes us a little bit of sugar.

Two ounces of your bourbon of choice.

I like.

And then about four or five drops of the Habanero Bitters doesn't take much of this.

Give you a little bit of heat on the back end of the drink.

I said, Are good steaks strained?

We're going to top with some ice and then to finish the drink off a lemon peel express over the drink rim.

So you're getting the aromatics from the lemon.

And then there you have the hellfire and some Oh, man, I'm telling you, I just this has been an unbelievable story.

And, you know, I got one last question for you.

What do you know about some kind of royal liquid?

You must be talking about royal offspring.

So we've got a natural spring right across the street, the water since since the beginning.

That's why we've settled here.

And it's actually where the Baptist minister, Elijah Craig, called his water to make bourbon for the first time right across the street, right across that far.

I'm going to go check it out rig and hey, Kyle.

Well, hello there, Miss Carrie.

You survived.

I see.

I did.

I had a great day.

I told you I didn't play in the water all day.

And you did, I suppose, to make any friends out there.

I did.

Well, I ran into an old friend.

I ran into b h and then I made some new friends of Scott Town and don't have.

How you make out with the challenge.

You know, I think I know who did it.

I doubt it, because, you know, I actually went and asked a pro a crowd.

Yeah.

He didn't know.

But then I went to Bourbon 30 and Jeff told me that the weaving thing was about these factories and mills that were constructed here in the 1790.

And so then I went to local beans and talked to Justin.

Justin told us that Royal spring it used to supply water from the first days and this little town was created at 11.

And now up until the 1950s, this man who started these back on Royal Spring happened to be a minister, the Reverend Elijah Craig.

So you saw that.

Elijah Craig and Elijah Craig is supposedly the man who first mass produced bourbon in the world.

I think we should drink to life.

I think we should make a toast to Elijah, Craig and Georgetown and Malcolm.

Yeah, of course.

Drink.

Until next time.

We'll see you downstream.