March 16, 2023
Freddy’s Steakburgers, Louisville, Kentucky
Freddy’s Steakburgers is a sequence we had by no means been to (and even heard of) earlier than, that options particular burgers and particular sundaes. The restaurant additionally options crimson – crimson cubicles, crimson tables, and crimson lights on a black and white checkered flooring. Very pleasing eye enchantment.
“Freddy’s Sundae Dream Group” presents 4 featured sundaes, I had a turtle sundae (vanilla frozen custard with fudge sauce, carmel sauce and toasted pecans). It was completely superior – can’t go incorrect with toasted pecans! The frozen custard had a pleasant texture and taste.
We adopted the sundaes with cheese fries and rooster sandwiches which made for a fantastic dessert.
Within the space – I beloved the pure great thing about Kentucky. We began our day at a maker of barrels, adopted it with a arboretum and ended up at Freddy’s.
Kentucky Cooperage Tour, Lebanon, Kentucky- Kentucky is thought for its bourbons. Bourbons (and different drinks) are aged in barrels, and lots of barrels are made at this cooperage. The corporate giving the tour in Lebanon Kentucky additionally has a manufacturing facility in Lebanon Missouri – we had been assured that it was not as a result of they beloved the identify Lebanon, it was simply the way it labored out.
This manufacturing facility tour allowed us to look at every step within the barrel making course of, beginning with a video on the customer middle that confirmed the harvesting of timber and making ready the boards. We had been then given headsets and pushed in a minibus to the manufacturing facility. As we walked by means of the manufacturing facility, we noticed how the barrels had been assembled, steamed, burned and completed, with our tour information explaining every step by means of the headphones. The within of the barrels are burned so as to add flavors to no matter spirit is to be ready. We additionally noticed the some choices purchasers might specify comparable to diploma of burn and even the state they needed the wooden to return from. The tour was fascinating and to not be missed. No photographs had been allowed contained in the manufacturing facility, however we might take them within the customer middle earlier than we went into the manufacturing facility.
Bernheim Arboretum and Analysis Forest, Clermont Kentucky – In 1929, Isaac Bernheim, a German immigrant with a really profitable distilling enterprise purchased land and devoted it as a present to folks in his new homeland of Kentucky. His aim was to supply a spot to bond folks and nature – a spot the place nature, infused with artwork would permit guests to resume and calm down. I believe Mr. Bernheim can be completely satisfied to see this place in the present day.
The Forest Giants Path would most likely have made Mr. Bernheim essentially the most completely satisfied – three inventive forest giants alongside a 1 mile out-and-back path with lakes, tranquil wooded areas and a holly forest which featured extra forms of holly than I ever knew existed. The forest giants made by the artist Thomas Dambo had been so inventive – I beloved them.
