Sampling tours now available at Jack Daniel's distillery

[TripleDigitRide]

A special sampling tour is now available at the Distillery to our friends of legal drinking age. You will need to present an ID showing you are 21 years of age or older.

The cost for this tour is $10.00 plus tax, per person.

Tours are available Monday through Thursday at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, and 4:00 CST.

Friday and Saturday sampling tours are available during these times, as well as at 10:00, 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, and 3:00.

Sampling tours are available on Sundays at 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, and 4:00 p.m. CST only.

Tours are an hour and forty-five minutes long and include a private sampling of the hometown product.

[enfield]

Just pitiful.  Stroh's Brewery tours in Detroit were free.  And, you could skip the tour and just spend the time in the tap room.  :D

 

I went regularly, saw the plant once.

 

Stroh's has gone out of business but it wasn't my fault.

[10-Ring]

Just pitiful.  Stroh's Brewery tours in Detroit were free.  And, you could skip the tour and just spend the time in the tap room.   :D

 

I went regularly, saw the plant once.

 

Stroh's has gone out of business but it wasn't my fault.

I'd gladly pay $10 to get to not have to go to Detoliet and drink JD instead in Stroh's.

[Lumber_Jack]

Also whiskey is much more time and money invested to end product than beer. I feel $10 is reasonable.

[Ugly]

Thanks for sharing, glad to hear this. I've heard the county Jack is in is dry so it's nice they could loosen the noose for a (rather large) local business

[No_0ne]

Does this mean they hand you a fifth to drink while making the tour?

[Johnny Rotten]

Does this mean they hand you a fifth to drink while making the tour?

Your being silly, they uncork a barrel and you fill your cup :)

Edited April 6, 2015 by Johnny Rotten

[jh225]

If the county is dry, how are they getting around that? You are paying for the booze via the $10 fee, same as you would be paying in a store/bar.

 

Are they saying the free tour is somehow different than the $10 tour other than the booze?

[Ugly]

Maybe it's a sin tax

[btq96r]

Just how much sample are we talking for the $10 paid?

[bholman]

Just how much sample are we talking for the $10 paid?

We did this about a year or so ago and I believe we got approximately 5 different shots (i think they were half shots or maybe even less).

[Sean]

The wife and I did it 5 or 6 years ago also. I loved it. Picked up 3 commemorative bottles while we were there.

[enfield]

I'd gladly pay $10 to get to not have to go to Detoliet and drink JD instead in Stroh's.

You wouldn't survive there! ;)

[analog_kidd]

We went there a few years ago too. I'm pretty sure they have two tours you can take: the free one, or the longer one for $10 and you get a sample.

 

They explained the loophole of how they are able to sell the samples, and commemorative bottles in the store, but I've forgotten exactly how it works. Regardless there is a legal loophole. Don't expect that you are getting some fantastic deal there either. It will cost you the same, if not more because the bottles are commemorative, than it would for a similar sized bottle at your local package store.

 

We went for the weekend and stayed at a B&B, but that was way too long. We did enjoy relaxing at the B&B, but you won;t find a whole lot to do there. There is the distillery, at which you can spend a few hours. Down town has a few gift shops, and a restaurant or two, but not much else.

 

The tour guide said that the county will likely be dry forever because it takes a certain population density to vote on overturning the prohibition, and the town / county is so small they will never be able to reach that number of residents.

[Chucktshoes]

I'd gladly pay $10 to get to not have to go to Detoliet and drink JD instead in Stroh's.

And I would gladly spend the gas money to make the drive to Detroit and guzzle Stroh's over spending $10 on the swill they produce in Lynchburg.

[maroonandwhite]

Kentucky (Maker's Mark) is where it's at guys.... :pleased:

[enfield]

And I would gladly spend the gas money to make the drive to Detroit and guzzle Stroh's over spending $10 on the swill they produce in Lynchburg.

Amen! JD is too expensive to mix and too poor to drink straight. George Dickel and all Kentucky whiskeys are better.

[willis68]

I went and did the adult tour last month, it is well worth the money and
Everyone there doing those tours loved it, if you have not been to the JD you're missing one of the best free things there are to do on this world,

[Chucktshoes]

Amen! JD is too expensive to mix and too poor to drink straight. George Dickel and all Kentucky whiskeys are better.

I generally prefer to stick to whiskeys of the Irish or Scottish variety. Bourbons just don't do it for me.