Comments on: Old Taylor Distillery

By: Jim Risch

Jim Risch — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:54:31 +0000

Glad I found this site. Laura and I were cycling out of Versailles, headed toward the Kentucky River as it winds it’s way through horse country and happened upon the old grounds. It was a beautiful day for cycling and to find such a place was almost surreal. I guess it took 15 minutes of riding along with our mouth’s hanging open in awe to pass the entire series of buildings. We saw some Jim Bean trailers backed up to docks which made us think something must still (no pun intended ) be going on. Saw some other vehicles about but no souls. Thanks for the little bit of history. We will be back, if only to show our “bourbon drinking” cyclist friends.

By: jtarheel

jtarheel — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:06:40 +0000

The decanter shaped like entrance was my first introduction to Old Taylor. My Dad said there were only 100 released in celebration of 100 years since the founding of the distillery. Looking at the dates here, I think he was told wrong. I have the decanter, now.

By: Bill Dishart

Bill Dishart — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:06:45 +0000

We happended upon the distillery by accident today. We were driving on our way to Wild Turkey and made a wrong turn. We were amazed at the site and the structures. We spent an hour walking around and taking pictures. We imagined what the distillery must have been during its prime. The springhouse was incredible. It’s a shame most of the property is in ruins. We appreciated reading about its history.

By: Thaddeus

Thaddeus — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:06:07 +0000

Some friends and I actually went and visited this place today. It was absolutely amazing. walking through the crumbling buildings you could just imagine the production that used to go on. There is also a fall-out shelter in the basement of one building that still has boxes of emergency rations dated 1963. In the distilling area there are instruments with graphs dating from the end of January 1972 from the last time someone had changed them for another day of production before they shut down. We did get promptly kicked off the property after being discovered, because a lot of people go out there and like to smash things up which is very sad.