be a food truck. To sample their wares, you must purchase tickets for a tour that includes both the brewery and distillery and ends with a tasting, where you can select four samples from Alltech’s various beers and spirits. The good news is that Alltech’s beers are some of the most widely found in the area if the shot glass sample isn’t enough to whet your whistle. The rest of the breweries in Lexington do operate typical brewer taprooms. Country Boy Brewing may be known for popular flagships like their Cougar Bait blonde ale and Shotgun Wedding brown ale, but their barrel aged offerings are where the brewery really shines. The brewery ages everything from standard imperial stouts to black IPAs in bourbon barrels. The fun doesn’t stop with bourbon, though. Country Boy also likes to play around with other spirits like Sazerac and rum. A jalapeno smoked Sazerac barrel-aged porter anyone? Most of these are one-offs found in
one of their two area breweries – downtown Lexington and Georgetown. A visit to Ethereal Brewing is a look down Lexington distilling lane. The brewery is located in the former James Pepper Distillery and occupies the old fermentation room. While most of their beers lean towards Belgian farmhouse and American craft beer influences, they on occasion release a one-off barreled aged beer from barrels resting in the distillery’s old barrel room.