Bourbon & Beyond is the perfect blend of bourbon, food, and music taking place September 22-23, 2018 in the heart of bourbon country: Louisville, Kentucky. This year's musical lineup includes Sting, Robert Plant, Lenny Kravitz, and John Mayer. Participating chefs include Tom Colicchio, Edward Lee, Aaron Sanchez, and Stephanie Izard. To see the full music, food, and bourbon lineups, go to bourbonandbeyond.com.
You'll enjoy the best of the weekend's festivities with "The Mint Experience," with access to exclusive VIP amenities. You’ll not only have access to all General Admission areas, but you’ll also to The Mint Garden, an exclusive hang area for VIPs only, front-of-stage viewing of the Oak Stage, access to The Mint Tent – a shaded hang space with dedicated bars & comfortable furniture, live audio/video streams of the Barrel & Oak Stages, a dedicated merchandise stand for convenient shopping, premium food and beverage offerings (for additional purchase), private locker rentals, air conditioned and flushable restrooms, dedicated entrance lanes into the festival, and a commemorative VIP-only laminated and RFID wristband.
To top it all off, you'll enjoy a VIP tasting at the Chef's Counter – an intimate yet approachable culinary experience that will host Bourbon & Beyond’s best chefs, bartenders and distillers. Located in the headliner field with the Main Stage as its back drop, the counter is bordered by a walk up picket fence where fans coming and going can stop for an impromptu tasting with the chefs and counter guests. Anything can happen and anyone can drop by for unique culinary sit ins. The Chef's Counter has only 10 seats, making it an intimate tasting demo for Bourbon & Beyond fans that are lucky enough to win tickets leading up to the festival.
When you're not enjoying all the action the festival has to offer, you'll also get to take in a private tour and tasting at Angel's Envy Distillery. Angel’s Envy creates hand crafted, small batch whiskeys aged in port barrels. Rooted in 200 years of bourbon heritage, Angel's Envy creates hand-finished spirits that aren’t afraid to improve on the classic tradition. Inspired by legendary Master Distiller Lincoln Henderson’s lifetime spent crafting fine spirits, each bottle is a masterpiece. The 5% of spirit lost each year during barrel aging is called the “Angel’s Share.” After tasting Angel's Envy's finished whiskey, Lincoln joked that he’d finally gotten a better deal than the angels. And so Angel’s Envy was born.