Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company is a

brewery A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of b ...

and

distillery Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixt ...

based in

Lexington, Kentucky Lexington is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the List of ...

founded in 1999 by

Pearse Lyons Thomas Pearse Lyons (3 August 1944 – 8 March 2018) was an Irish businessman and the founder and President of Kentucky-based Alltech Inc., an American animal health and nutrition company that is centred on innovation, research and development. ...

, the president and founder of animal nutrition company

Alltech Alltech is an American company, headquartered in Nicholasville, Kentucky, with operations in animal feed, meat, brewing, and distilling. Alltech develops agricultural products for use in both livestock and crop farming, as well as products for t ...

. Alltech entered the

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with the introduction of their Kentucky Ale. In 2012 the company opened its distillery and developed a line of spirits including Pearse Lyons Reserve, a malt whiskey, Bluegrass Sundown, a bourbon-infused coffee drink, and Town Branch Bourbon.

Beers

Spirits

The Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company also produces four whiskey spirits: * Town Branch

Bourbon Bourbon may refer to: Food and drink * Bourbon whiskey, an American whiskey made using a corn-based mash * Bourbon, a beer produced by Brasseries de Bourbon * Bourbon biscuit, a chocolate sandwich biscuit * Bourbon coffee, a type of coffee ma ...

- aged in new, charred white oak barrels - 90 proof * Town Branch

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- 100 proof * Pearse Lyons Reserve (

malt whiskey Malt whisky is whisky made from a fermented mash consisting of malted barley. If the product is made exclusively at a single distillery (along with other restrictions), it is typically called a single malt whisky. Although malt whisky can be mad ...

) - aged in spent bourbon barrels that have also been used to age the brewery's flagship Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale - 80 proof * Bluegrass Sundown - a dark roasted coffee infused with Kentucky bourbon and sugar The distillery began making spirits in 2007, and began selling them in 2011 after waiting for four years of aging. In 2015, the distillery released its first specialty spirit, a 6-year

single barrel Single barrel whiskey (or single cask whiskey) is a premium class of whiskey in which each bottle comes from an individual aging barrel, instead of coming from blending together the contents of various barrels to provide uniformity of color and t ...

version of its Town Branch Bourbon.

Tours

With its inception, the Town Branch Distillery was added to the

Kentucky Bourbon Trail The Kentucky Bourbon Trail, sometimes informally referred to as "the Bourbon Trail", is a program sponsored by the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) to promote the Bourbon whiskey industry in Kentucky. The KDA has registered the phrase "K ...

and began offering tours. Visitors are able to view the alcohol production process and sample beer and spirits.

References

External links

Official site
{{Fayette County/Lexington, Kentucky Companies based in Lexington, Kentucky Beer brewing companies based in Kentucky Food and drink companies established in 1999 1999 establishments in Kentucky