Kentucky golf, food and bourbon

Set the alarm for o' dark thirty for a tee off time of 7:40 and the course was about 15 miles from us. It was a beautiful drive with minimal traffic and our GPS got us right to the front gate. We were going to walk, but it was a really hilly course and walkers were not allowed until after 1PM. Ron had a big smile on his face and said "DARN".

Notice the pond right behind the tree!

What form (LOL)

 

We had a great time, the weather was good and the course was  pristine.

 We had talked to many people about where we could eat down home Kentucky food
and it was unanimous that we eat at "Claudia Sanders dinner house.
 After golf we went  for their  Sunday buffet brunch and we were not disappointed.

Fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, creamed spinach and
 Egg plant casserole (mocked oysters) and rare roast beef

Yeast rolls, beaten biscuits, Harvard beets, breaded tomatoes,  and corned pudding.
The food was absolutely mouth watering good. So good I actually bought the cook book.

For what ever reason-I got 2 of these pictures and for the life of me I can not take  one of them out.
(She really like them so much she had to show them twice)

 Chess  and Derby pie!! Chess pie has it's history, prior to folks having refrigerators, the women would make it out of ingredients they had at home and just put a dish towel over it until it was all eaten. The Derby pie is pecan pie with chocolate chips !! 

Yikes they were so good it was almost sinful.

 We took an hour tour of this distillery and we were clueless about where bourbon came from. Very interesting, and for those folks all around us there were samples at the end. We had one of a kind root beer that was excellent-we ended up buying a case. "The Original Dr. McGillicuddy's Old Fashion Root Beer." Bet you have never heard of it before!

The facility was on 125 acres with several warehouse buildings like the this one. 

 There were four floors of barrels equaling about 3000 in this one warehouse.

All aging Kentucky bourbon.

 Fancy expensive bourbon-with a collector horse on the top.

The bourbon ready to be shipped

The Kentucky River is part of the process to make the bourbon and the water needs to be ionized and aerated. Does not look to appetizing to me.. But I am not a drinker.

We had another great day on our journey and we are looking

 forward to what tommorow will bring.