Winchester wanderings

BY RYAN C. HERMENS NOVEMBER 19, 2020, 12:26 PM Wildcat Willy’s Distillery at 31 E. Broadway St. in Winchester, Ky., offers moonshine, bourbon and food made with local ingredients, many from Laura Freeman’s Mt. Folly Farm. Kentuckians are no stranger to spirits. But when Laura Freeman, owner of Mt. Folly Farm, wanted to open a distillery, she…

By Winchester Sun Email the author Published 10:09 am Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Main Street Winchester is partnering with the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet and Kentucky Main Street Program for a special holiday promotion highlighting small businesses in Main Street communities across the commonwealth. Kentucky Main Street works to encourage downtown revitalization and…

November 30, 2020 Christmas Past. Christmas Present.BY TOM YATES No doubt, it’s been a heck of a year. After months of masking up, being apart, and staying socially distant, we’ve missed birthdays, anniversaries, funerals, weddings, holidays, and much much more. And now, it’s coming on Christmas. Different and distant. In our new normal, Christmas won’t…

By Alex King -October 26, 2020 LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – This year’s Kentucky Proud Beer Series begins Wednesday, the focus is creating Kentucky Proud Beer with Kentucky agriculture. “Just, you know, seeing your product go into beer and bourbon.” The beer series is a staple of Kentucky’s fall calendar. Many of the breweries are using Kentucky malt…

EVENTS / TRAVELOctober 23rd, 2020 BY Penelope Miller This year’s Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland Race Course will be unlike any other: in addition to offering world-class racing, it’s going to be an at-home affair for all racing fans this year due to the ongoing pandemic. That means that you have a chance to get really creative with your Breeders’…

Oct 21st, 2020 Crafting Kentucky Proud beers with Kentucky agricultural products is the focus of this year’s Kentucky Proud Beer Series, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles has announced. Now in its fifth year, the beer series combines the best of what Kentucky has to offer from its breweries with its farms. “Every October, Kentucky’s craft brewers…

Kirby AdamsLouisville Courier Journal As Halloween approaches, you may be asking if it’s safe to celebrate the holiday in the traditional way or if you should be finding alternatives to toast the spooky season. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that most traditional Halloween activities, such as costume parties and door-to-door trick-or-treating,…

By Winchester Sun Published 3:52 pm Thursday, October 8, 2020 On Sept. 25, the Leeds Center for the Arts and editor Rebecca Campomanes digitally released volume 1, issue 1 of its new zine, CiQ online. The zine (short for magazine) is an online-only literary journal that will be published every two weeks; the second issue was…

Erin McDowell Oct 2, 2020, 2:35 PM KENTUCKY: Beer cheese According to local lore, beer cheese was invented by Chef Joe Allman for his cousin Johnnie, the owner of the Driftwood Inn near Winchester, Kentucky. According to the Downtown Winchester Beer Cheese Festival, the dish was originally created by Allman to entice customers to order more beer…

August 28, 2020 JC Phelps, II Hey, y’all! The Kentucky Derby is my favorite holiday — and always will be. While this is a nontraditional racing year and fans are not allowed at the track, my shine won’t be dulled: I’m celebrating Kentucky Derby 2020 at home with Ale-8-One! The Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs – and, really, the entire…

BY BLAKE HANNON CONTRIBUTING WRITERAUGUST 27, 2020 06:00 AM Chad T. Walker and his wife, Jill, have a combination of affection and memories tied up in their new downtown Winchester dining spot, The Engine House Pub and Pizza Parlour. Jill worked at the location as a server in high school and college. And being the site of…