The Kentucky Bourbon Trail now has 18 participating distilleries and welcomed 1,397,268 visits in 2022. Stay Informed: Sign up here for the Distillery Trail free email newsletter and be the first to get all the latest news, trends, job listings and events in your inbox. ‘The Grandfather’ 200 gallon square copper pot still at Casey Jones Distillery. As laws have changed over the year craft distilleries started popping up and in 2012 the Association created the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour. The Association created the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 1999 with seven members to give visitors an intimate, educational look behind the state’s most historic distilleries. The non-profit trade association’s purpose it to unite, promote, protect and elevate the state’s signature Bourbon and distilled spirits industry. The Kentucky Distillers’ Association – KDA has been around since 1880. The growth to visits on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail has grown a phenomenal 370% in just the last 10 years. That was 38% higher than the previous high set in 2019 of 1.7 million visits. ![]() We are happy to report that visitor numbers to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour reached 2,135,555 total visits. ![]() ![]() If you didn’t make a reservation well in advance, especially with the heritage distilleries, you likely were stuck outside looking in. And if you tried to schedule a tour in 2022 you know what it was like. 20 were off years for tourism across the world but with Covid restrictions mostly in the rearview mirror, bourbon fans flocked to the world-famous Kentucky Bourbon Trail® and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour® in 2022 in record numbers.
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