Kentucky Distillery Guide
Distillery · Kentucky Bourbon Trail stop

Jeptha Creed Distillery

500 Gordon Ln, Shelbyville, KY 40065

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Shelby County, Central Kentucky

Hours

Weekly hours
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday11am to 6pm
Friday11am to 6pm
Saturday11am to 6pm
Sundaynoon to 5pm

Times are Eastern Time. Visitor or gift-shop schedule; check reservations and holiday closures before travel.

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, vodka, moonshine, brandy
Founded
2016

Published visitor policies

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

Children on tours

Children allowed within the published conditions.

Children welcome with adult supervision.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Food

Food is offered within the published conditions.

Operator describes food service at its onsite cafe.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Reservations

recommended

Production tour and spirit tasting allow walk-ins subject to capacity; premium farm and barrel experiences are 21+. Existing children-on-tour value applies the standard tour only.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Access information

Welcome center, bar, cafe, spirit tasting and distillery tour accessible; barrel tasting not wheelchair friendly.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Experiences

guided production tour, barrel tasting, spirit tasting

Production tour and spirit tasting allow walk-ins subject to capacity; premium farm and barrel experiences are 21+. Existing children-on-tour value applies the standard tour only.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Not established in the reviewed sources: Dogs.

What’s here

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

Jeptha Creed grows the heirloom Bloody Butcher corn used in all of its spirits on its 64-acre family farm.

Timeline

  1. Operator recounts Wisconsin test batches in 2014.

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  2. Operator says groundbreaking followed its 2014 land/zoning/bridge work a year later.

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  3. Operator dates its first distilled and barreled bourbon to August 2016.

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  4. Operator explicitly states the distillery opened to the public November 11, 2016.

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  5. Operator body schedules first Straight 4-Grain Bourbon release for May 10, 2019.

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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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