Kentucky Distillery Guide
Distillery · Kentucky Bourbon Trail craft stop

Bluegrass Distillers

158 W Leestown Rd, Midway, KY 40347

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Woodford County, Lexington and the Bluegrass

Hours

Hours are not published on the place’s own pages. Call or check the website before you go.

Times are Eastern Time.

Checked October 14 and 15, 2026 from the place’s own pages. Hours change; confirm before you go.

Before you go

Visiting
Tours and tastings
Policies
Read the sourced visitor policies below for booking, children, pets, food and access conditions.
Makes
Bourbon, rye
Founded
2012

Published visitor policies

Conditions apply to the location and experience described. A policy answer does not guarantee admission or a tour seat.

Reservations

recommended

Current operator Midway homepage recommends booking; production tour and barrel tasting offered at 158 W Leestown Road. Old Lexington tasting-room listing is a separate/historical location, not a new pin or current Midway address.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Experiences

distillery tour, barrel tasting, hand-corked bottle experience

Current operator page describes tours, tasting from barrel and bottle corking. Embedded booking widget alone supplies no specific ticket inventory.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Not established in the reviewed sources: Children on tours, Dogs, Food, Access information.

What’s here

  • Tours
  • Tastings
  • Bottle your own
  • Cocktail bar
  • Restaurant
  • Event space
  • Barrel picks

Bluegrass Distillers grows non-GMO heirloom blue corn at Elkwood Farm for its Blue Corn Bourbon, and KBT calls it the first operating Bourbon distillery in Midway since 1959.

Timeline

  1. Operator timeline says company established in spring 2012.

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  2. Company founded.

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  3. Operator dates West Sixth Street tours/tastings to summer 2013.

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  4. Original lexington visitor doors opened.

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  5. Operator timeline dates first public batch releases to November 2015.

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  6. Timeline dates Elkwood Farm expansion announcement to December 2020.

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  7. Dated operator release announces new construction February 3, 2023.

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  8. Operator timeline and dated release agree on 2025 but conflict on ceremony timing:April 2025 versus June 12, 2025.

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  9. June 12, 2025 issuer release says new Elkwood location became official trailstop lastmonth, supporting May 2025 at month precision.

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Each milestone says exactly what happened: a company founding is not the same as a first distillation or a visitor opening.

Nearby

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