Distillery & Winery

Friday, October 10, 2014 - Campbellsville, KY

It was another rainy day, but today it rained all day.

Mike worked another 5 hour day.  He said his stow rate was 76% yesterday.  During their training period they want you to get to 75%, he made it at least 1 day.  :)  But he said he got a couple of "pretty carts" yesterday.  Meaning they have a lot of the same items on it.  An "ugly cart" has a lot of single items, which means you have more chances of an error. 

Today he was moving his cart along and hit an emergency stop button on a conveyor.  He was going to just reset it, since that is what he would have done before, but the sign said only maintenance could do that.  So he had to call maintenance to let them know what he had done.  :) 

He does not feel his rate was as good today.  :)  But his first week is over now.  :)


Mike needed to re-fill his prescription and the nearest Walgreens is in Lebanon, KY, which is about 20 miles away.  Since we were going to head for Lebanon, Mike checked out what else there was to do there.  Well he found out Lebanon is part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.  So we thought we would check it out.

When we got to Lebanon we first found the Walgreens, but Mike's prescription was not going to be ready until 4:00pm.  Then we found the Limestone Branch Distillery.

As soon as we arrived they had just started a tour, so we just caught up with them.  Not that it was hard to do, they were just in the back of the building.  Our tour guide was explaining how they make Moonshine, which is their MoonPie Moonshine.  Then we turned around and he explained how they make their bourbon.  It was a very interesting tour. 

After the tour we went back to the front of the building and did a little tasting.  First we tried the Cherry, Strawberry, Apple Cinnamon Pie and Pumpkin Pie Sugar Shine.  Then I tried the Chocolate MoonPie Moonshine and Mike tried the Precinct No. 6 Sour Mash.  I did not think I would like any of them, but they were pretty good and we ended up buying a small bottle of the Cherry Sugar Shine.  I could see us going back there to purchase a jar of the Vanilla MoonPie Moonshine.  :)  They were telling us that it is good in tea or coffee...sounded good to me.  I also purchased a Salted Carmel Moon Pie and Mike got a Ice Cream Moon Pie.  :)

Next we drove about 5 miles down the road to White Moon Winery. 

The owner Alex Payne is very nice and gave us the story behind each wine we were tasting.  The wine tasting also included some cheese from Kenny Farmhouse Cheese, which is a farm that is about an hour from here.  They also have tours of their cheese-making facility and a tasting room.  We may need to make a  trip down there.  :)

After our wine tasting we headed to the back of the building, where Alex explained how she made her wines.  The tour was very interesting.  We ended up purchasing several bottles of wine.

We finally headed to Walgreens to pick up Mike's prescription.  We were also very hungry, so we decided we would drive back to Campbellsville and eat at Garcia's Mexican Restaurant.  The food and service were good.  It is a place I am sure we will go to again during the time we will be here.  :)

It was another wonderful day!