Louisville - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide
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A complete guide for everything you need to experience a great Long Weekend in LOUISVILLE, a fascinating city that’s also the bourbon Capital of the World.
“I’ve been wanting to go to Louisville for years but never got around to it, but my wife thought it sounded like a bad idea. Now that we’ve been for a long weekend to check it out, my wife and I plan to return again within 6 months. She loved it as much as I did. What a town!”
---Eugene H., Dallas
“The Delaplaine guide books ‘cut to the chase.’ You get what you need and don’t get what you don’t.” –Wilma K., Seattle
Updated throughout the year, this concise guide will save you a lot of time.
=LODGINGS, from budget to deluxe
= RESTAURANTS, from the finest the area has to offer ranging down to the cheapest (with the highest quality). More than sufficient listings to make your Long Weekend memorable.
=PRINCIPAL ATTRACTIONS -- don't waste your precious time on the lesser ones. We've done all the work for you.
=SHOPPING – some interesting out of the way places.
Andrew Delaplaine
Delaplaine lives on South Beach, Miami’s Billion Dollar Sandbar. He writes in widely varied fields: screenplays, novels (adult and juvenile) and journalism. He also has a series of Long Weekend Guides covering some 50 cities around the world. Email: andrewdelaplaine@mac.com He writes several series: The “JACK HOUSTON ST. CLAIR” political thriller novels. “THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES IV,” a series of novels starring the great-great-grandson of the famous consulting detective. “THE ANNALS OF SANTOPIA” series, an epic that follows a Santa born in 1900 through to his death 82 years later. The AMOS FREEMAN police thrillers. Other novels: “The Trap Door” follows a boy who is taken back in time to 1594 and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. “The Meter Maid Murders,” a comic look at a detective trying to nab a serial killer on South Beach who only murders meter maids. Has written and directed three features (one doc, two narrative features), as well as several short films and won several awards for his film work. (See imdb.com for details). His latest film, “Meeting Spencer,” starring Jeffrey Tambor, won the prestigious Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. DELAPLAINE’S “LONG WEEKEND” GUIDES These no-nonsense guides contain Delaplaine’s recommendations and advice for travelers visiting these places for 3 or 4 days. As "The Food Enthusiast," he writes a series of restaurants guides, updated annually. He has no hobbies.
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Louisville - The Delaplaine 2021 Long Weekend Guide - Andrew Delaplaine
LOUISVILLE
The Delaplaine
2021
Long Weekend Guide
No business listed in this guide has provided anything free to be included.
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Andrew Delaplaine
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Louisville Editor
Levi Beckley
Senior Editors
Renee & Sophie Delaplaine
Senior Writer
James Cubby
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Copyright © by Gramercy Park Press - All rights reserved.
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Please submit corrections, additions or comments to andrewdelaplaine@mac.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – WHY LOUISVILLE?
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Chapter 2 – GETTING ABOUT
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Chapter 3 – WHERE TO STAY
High on the Hog – Sensible Alternatives – Budget
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Chapter 4 – WHERE TO EAT
Extravagant – Middle Ground – Budget
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Chapter 5 – NIGHTLIFE
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Chapter 6 – WHAT TO SEE & DO
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Chapter 7 – SHOPPING & SERVICES
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Chapter 1
WHY LOUISVILLE?
If you follow the booze industry, or even hang out in semi-fashionable bars and lounges anywhere in the world, you can’t have escaped the realization that bourbon has become one of the hottest categories in the spirits business.
Kentucky is the Bourbon Capital of the World, and within the Bluegrass State, the epicenter of all this activity is Louisville. People come here before they go out into the hinterlands to visit the distilleries. (Actually, the town of Bardstown, about 40 minutes from Louisville, trademarked the term Bourbon Capital of the World,
but that’s hair-splitting.)
The amount of bourbon selling each year goes up greater than any other spirit. Sales will top $5 billion shortly. Production of the liquor has jumped 50% just over the last decade.
If you added up all the barrels currently aging in Louisville distilleries, the number would be greater than the number of people that live in the state, and for that matter, the number of horses, combined!
Now, that’s a lot of bourbon.
A great deal of the increase in bourbon shipments has been to foreign countries, places like Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, where a taste for bourbon has become all the rage among the moneyed elites in these countries. The greatest growth has come within the super premium categories.
As sales have soared against other segments of the liquor industry (vodka, tequila, gin, Scotch), the so-called Big Six distilleries (including Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Brown-Forman, Wild Turkey, Four Roses and Diageo) have ramped up production.
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The new keen interest from consumers has proved strong enough to encourage numerous entrepreneurs to launch craft distilleries. And while the Big Six still gobble up sales, accounting for some 90%, there’s room