Before leaving town, we headed back to the liquor store to pick up another bottle of Blanton's to take home as a souvenir for S's dad, then headed off to Town Branch Brewery and Distillery for our first tour of the day.
Town Branch is the new kid in town, as distilleries go, but it was a fun tour. It's very high tech, and as a consequence of being the new kid, it's willing to show that (whereas some of the older, "traditional" distilleries, though they may be every bit as advanced, don't put it on display quite as much.)
The tour was made especially fun by the fact that it was our tour guide's last tour before he went on to another job. He was making the best of it for himself and for us, and we got several extra tastes just for kicks. What were they going to do, fire him?
From there we headed off to Buffalo Trace, which we did not tour, but did partake in the two-sample (plus a chocolate) tasting. S was correct in his prediction that they would not have any Blanton's for purchase, which made us especially glad that we had purchased ours at the drive-through liquor store the afternoon before.
For his birthday, S wanted a sushi meal, so we had that before getting back on the road to St. Louis.
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