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Heaven Hill Bourbon Experience

1311 Gilkey Run Rd, Bardstown, KY 40004

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Nelson County, Bardstown and Nelson County

Hours

Weekly hours
Monday9:30am to 5pm
Tuesday9:30am to 5pm
Wednesday9:30am to 5pm
Thursday9:30am to 5pm
Friday9:30am to 5pm
Saturday9:30am to 5pm
Sunday1pm to 5pm

Times are Eastern Time. Visitor-center schedule. The restaurant opens at 11 am and last tasting starts one hour before closing.

Checked October 14 and 15, 2026 from the place’s own hours source. 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, wheat whiskey

Published visitor policies

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

Food

Food is offered within the published conditions.

Five Brothers Bar and Kitchen at Bourbon Experience visitor campus. Do not copy dining to Bernheim or Springs production sites.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Experiences

guided tasting, whiskey-history exhibits and theater, departure point for Heaven Hill Springs distillery shuttle tour

Bardstown visitor campus is the departure location. Five Brothers food belongs here, not to Bernheim or automatically Springs.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

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

What’s here

  • Tours
  • Tastings
  • Restaurant
  • Cocktail bar
  • Gift shop
  • Event space

Tours of the new Heaven Hill Springs Distillery, which filled its first barrel in April 2025, depart by shuttle from the Bourbon Experience.

Timeline

  1. Issuer retrospectively dates Bourbon Heritage Center firstopening October 15, 2004.

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  2. Issuer retrospectively dates expansiongroundbreaking toNovember 2018.

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  3. Issuer datesrenovation-phaseunveiling withthreetastingrooms toNovember 2019.

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  4. Operator podcast Episode 15 retrospectively confirms publicopening inJune 2021.

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  5. June 14 issuerrelease says grandopening/ribboncuttingheld thatday.

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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

Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance. Your map app will be more exact.

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