Rabbit Hole Distillery

Great distillery with a nice bar on the top floor with amazing views of the city. The staff was great at recommending drinks and they were very well balanced.

Rabbit Hole is a new arrival on the Kentucky Bourbon Scene, with its flagship location in hip NuLu opening in 2018 or so. Its a gorgeous building, all steel glass and concrete, with a shaded plaza on the ground level and a rooftop bar and deck overlooking NuLu and Downtown Louisville.Not a bad place to spend a couple hours on a hot afternoon.The tour is fun and you get a complementary Old Fashioned to lubricate those brain cells. It ends in a private tasting room on the top floor, after which you can continue to sample the company wares from the bar, which has plenty of comfortable seats inside as well as a roof top deck.Their Black Manhattan is particularly good.As for their bourbon and rye? Its pretty good, but nothing really stands out so as to justify the $45 and up MSRP price tags. Like most new distilleries, you are paying their mortgage and debt financing in addition to their bourbon.

I enjoyed the vibe and ambiance of this place! The service was also very good, the bartender was super kind and knew her stuff! I am by no means a bourbon drinker and there was really only one option to get that didn't include bourbon but it was good! I wish the menu was bigger with more cocktail options in general. Drinks were pricey, $17 per cocktail and pretty small sizes but they were delicious.

For our first bourbon distillery tour of the day, we went to Rabbit Hole Distillery, named after the Alice in Wonderland story. The distillery, founded in 2012 and opened in 2018, had a very modern look. Atop of the distillery was a corrugated metal sign, and if you looked at it from the right, you saw a rabbit, and if you looked at it from the left, you saw the words "Rabbit Hole". Pretty cool!We arrived early four our tour, so we spent the time looking around in the gift shop, where I found a hat for my husband, which he really likes. The tour, at $25US, wasn't cheap, but we had a good time viewing the distillery and the tour included five samples:1.Cavehill: a four grain bourbon with hints of fruit, named after Cave Hill Cemetery, Muhammad Ali's final resting place.2. Heigold: a high rye (25%) bourbon with caramel notes. It is named after Christian Heigold, a German stonecutter who settled in Louisville prior to 1850.3. Boxergrail: a rye whiskey made of 95% rye. Named after Muhammad Ali and boxing culture.4. Bespoke gin: a gin aged in the Boxergrail barrels. I wasn't expecting a bourbon distillery to produce gin, but the gin was quite tasty and I purchased a bottle because it was something different.5. Dareringer: a bourbon finished in sherry casks, with notes of cherry, raisins, and currents. I didn't quite understand where the name came from, but it was a tribute to the Rabbit Hole founder's wife and her support.We enjoyed the tour and the tasting, and there was also a bar and lounge, but unfortunately we didn't have time to stay for a cocktail. [Yelp collections: Louisville/Indianapolis 2023; Louisville, KY 2023; Wine Time!]

Rabbit Hole's distillery tour is well worth the money. We were greeted with an old-fashioned made from their flagship Cavehill whiskey. The clean, modern building was designed with visitors in mind, right down to anti-slip droplets that provide traction when walking on a glass section of flooring that reveals the barley mill conveyor system. Our tour guide, knowledgeable and enthusiastic, wasn't stumped by a single one of our questions. The burbling fermentation vats were great fun, and our guide encouraged us to reach down and dunk our finger into the mixture (the distillation process sanitizes everything). Tasting bar at the top has a patio with great views of the cityscape. Reserve well in advance, especially on weekends!

We had a fabulous tour! DAVID was our tour guide and dId an amazing job. This has been one of my favorite distilleries on the Bourbon Trail. I love the history and the older distilleries, but this newer, modern distillery is a can't miss on the trail.

Rabbit Hole is a must-do if you're traveling to Louisville. It's sleek, shiny, it has great branding, and as a trained chemist the live fermentation vats and distillation were a highlight of my 4 days to this iconic American city.A local friend and I ordered a Black Manhattan and a Signature Old Fashioned at the then-two-day-old rooftop bar, which has gorgeous full-height windows overlooking the downtown. We debated the relative merits of the Cavehill, Heigold, Boxergrail, and Dareringer, as the enthusiastic, knowledgeable bartender educated us on the history and gossip behind each of their four signature blends. I appreciated that the bartender sampled aliquots of each cocktail before serving us. The Black Manhattan was sugary, sweet, crisp, tart, and sweet - a real winner. The signature Old Fashioned was a bit smooth for my taste, but my usually bourbon-averse friend finished it before I could do the same to the old fashioned.The barrel select varieties were on hand and absurdly expensive, but the prices for the standard blends were in alignment with those at my local Wegmans.As such, Rabbit Hole receives my full recommendation. This is not a tourist trap.

Had a wonderful time here. The hubs and I rarely partake in alcoholic beverages, but decided to go up to the bar and treat ourselves. How could we not in bourbon country?!? I had the golden mule, and he had the signature old fashioned. They were definitely worth the splurge! The golden mule was one of the best drinks I've ever had. The bartender was friendly and helpful. There's an amazing view from the bar, too. We were able to walk around and check out the distillery, and made sure to stop by the gift shop before we left. Loved that they have elevators, so they are handicap accessible.

Rabbit Hole was the first stop on our second day on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. It was a rainy morning, but we walked to the distillery from our hotel while there was a break in the storm. From the outside the space is kind of unassuming. We rounded the corner to a beautiful courtyard entry with tall windows and modern sensibilities. We couldn't book a tour in advance, but we were hoping to visit their tasting room. We checked in and they were able to accommodate us right away (it had just opened a few minutes before).Once upstairs, we were greeted by a bright, open room with floor to ceiling windows and a panoramic view of downtown Louisville. And then the skies opened, and the view was completely blocked by sheets of rain womp womp. The space is beautiful and few walls they do have are staged like an art gallery.We opted for the tasting flight. It included the full line of whiskies, and we added their barrel aged gin. The whiskey was solid as usual; my favorite is Dareringer. But the gin truly stole the show! A trip to Louisville wouldn't be complete without a stop here.

Just pics, and was a great experience! One stop of many on the Trail. Close to many bothers to make it worth the stop. Awesome option of packages to maximize each individuals time. Highly recommend!