Kentucky Distillery Guide
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Old SteelHouse Distillery

1010 Deatsville Rd, Coxs Creek, KY 40013

Nelson County, Bardstown and Nelson County

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
By appointment
Policies
Read the sourced visitor policies below for booking, children, pets, food and access conditions.
Makes
Bourbon
Founded
1844

Published visitor policies

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

Reservations

required

Coxs Creek historic property is under restoration and tours are by appointment with no walk-ins. Downtown Bardstown tasting-room walk-ins are separate.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

Experiences

appointment-only historic property tour

Operator says the Coxs Creek property is under restoration and tours are by appointment, with no walk-ins. Visitor-center and distilling-facility build-out phases remain prospective. This is not a current production-tour certification.

Checked 10-14-2026. Source

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

What’s here

  • Tours
  • Tastings
  • Event space

Old Steel House is restoring the historic T.W. Samuels distillery site in Deatsville, Nelson County, which was listed on the National Register in 1988.

Timeline

  1. Operator timeline labels 2021 as the birth of Old Steel House Distillery.

    Source
  2. Operator timeline dates first barrel dump and bottling since the 1970s to September 2024.

    Source

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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