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 attraction.
“Freddy’s Sundae Dream Group” affords 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 mistaken with toasted pecans! The frozen custard had a pleasant texture and taste.
We adopted the sundaes with cheese fries and hen sandwiches which made for an important dessert.
Within the space – I liked 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 understood 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 have been assured that it was not as a result of they liked the identify Lebanon, it was simply the way it labored out.
This manufacturing facility tour allowed us to observe every step within the barrel making course of, beginning with a video on the customer heart that confirmed the harvesting of bushes and getting ready the boards. We have been then given headsets and pushed in a minibus to the manufacturing facility. As we walked by way of the manufacturing facility, we noticed how the barrels have been assembled, steamed, burned and completed, with our tour information explaining every step by way 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 may specify comparable to diploma of burn and even the state they wished the wooden to come back from. The tour was fascinating and to not be missed. No photographs have been allowed contained in the manufacturing facility, however we may take them within the customer heart 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 objective was to offer a spot to bond folks and nature – a spot the place nature, infused with artwork would permit guests to resume and chill out. I feel Mr. Bernheim could be joyful to see this place in the present day.
The Forest Giants Path would most likely have made Mr. Bernheim essentially the most joyful – three inventive forest giants alongside a 1 mile out-and-back path with lakes, tranquil wooded areas and a holly forest which featured extra kinds of holly than I ever knew existed. The forest giants made by the artist Thomas Dambo have been so artistic – I liked them.
