Blitz plans a trip to the Bourbon Belt

So Blitz and his son are planning a trip from the Chicago area to the Bourbon Belt in Kentucky in August of 2008. This was relatively easy because Blitz's uncle lives in Louisville, and because most of the distillieries down there are part of a consortium called the 'The Kentucky Bourbon Trail'. It's really easy to plan a trip using their website. Since we only had two days, we planned to visit three distilleries: Buffalo Trace, Makers Mark and Jim Beam. Here's a tip. When we arrived at our first tour at Buffalo Trace, we met some guys from North Carolina who were on a two day Distillery Tour Bachelors Party. How cool is that! Anyway, we were trading stories with them about our respective distillery schedules, and when we told them we were visiting Jim Beam on Sunday, they warned us that the County where Jim Beam is located is dry on Sunday, so there are no tastings. Thank god we got that information because the tasting was the best part of the Jim Beam visit (more detail about this in my subsequent review of the tour).