Kentucky Peerless Distilling

The best distillery tour I've taken. Peerless is a small family owed distillery. The tour guide was knowledgeable. A lot of questions answered about choosing barrels for single vs small batch. I found the first rye I like and got to taste their first toasted oak product.

The entire distillery process from receiving barrels to distribution.

Highly recommended

DSP-KY-50 is amazing and produces top notch barrel proof ryes and bourbon.

An awesome display of gifts in a small area, that offers tours and walk in tastings. Great quality, great staff and great tours.

Big bourbon drinker, big fan of peerless. Did the walk in tour which let us sample 2 of their single barrels. Our guide was Mr. Bill. He was so knowledgeable about the whole peerless story, had a great bourbon a plate, explained what each bottle had in detail, and on top of that Mr Corkey the chairman of peerless greeted us and was able to tell his awesome story of how peerless became to be.

The difference between this small Kraft distiller and the big boys is that they really take the time out of their day and explain to you in person thier view on bourbon and how it should be. They are in it for the love of bourbon. What other distillery chairman just walks in on your tour and wants to know about each person. Could have talked to him for hours.

Overall great place to visit and we even picked up their Single barrel rye. Love peerless!!!

We scheduled a tasting at Peerless. While the space itself is beautiful, this was my least favorite whiskey. I love their branding, the merch, the bottle shop, and the tasting room are so aesthetically pleasing. I didn't realize all their products are barrel (high) proof. There's definitely such a thing as too much alcohol. At some point all the flavor is just blown away by the burn of the alcohol. For me, that was most of this selection. I would need to make cocktails with any of these and for the price point I want something I can enjoy straight. The only one I would drink again is the absinthe (purple label) barrel aged rye.

If high proof is your thing, make this a stop while in town!

After coming in and checking out the place we really loved it however, we weren't able to get a tour and the tastings were not available as well. With that being said, they had just released a new batch of bourbon and the owner was there and he told the staff to go ahead and give us atasting was awesome not only did we get to meet the owner but we also got to do a tasting when it wasn't scheduled so it's really cool experience

About a 20min walk from our Downtown hotel. Peerless was a fun little distillery compared to the heavy hitters we had visited. It is a nice break from seeing the huge worldwide distillers. Our tasting had only 8 people so the experience was very personable. The host was a very fun, honest & knowledgeable guide. Nothing I hate more than someone trying to get one over on the customer. He honestly told us where to get the best price on every day Peerless products while letting us know which bottles were only available at the distillery. The Double Oak bourbon was our favorite as a group.

Great tour and great products. Chase was our awesome tour guide. Fourth generation owner, Corky Taylor, great grandson of founder Henry Kraver, stopped by to say hello on our tour and tell some stories! Awesome!

Then we went to the tast8ng room to try some great products. They inly make 2700 barrels per year, which is about what Jim Beam makes in a day.

Peerless was the second of our tours on our recent trip to Louisville. The tour was informative and the distillery itself was much more of a working distillery than a showplace experience. The tour guide was personable and informative as we viewed the production areas, but when we got to the tasting I found him to be controlling and condescending. Unlike some other tours where the glasses are filled and ready, the guide walked around the room and filled the glasses. We were among the first pours. I picked up my cup to take in the aroma while the pours were finished--and the guide snapped at me, "Don't drink it yet!"

OK, I get it. You want to talk about the product and be in control of the room. But I'm the customer and even if it offends you, if I want to slurp it down, I can do it. However what offended me the most was the immediate assumption that I was going to drink it while I just intended to sniff the aroma. Nose, taste, finish.

The bourbon itself was decent, but exploiting the laws of supply and demand I think it is over priced at retail and given the guide's slight at the tasting I'll probably be focusing on other brands. Even small things matter.

Loved the tasting! Our guide told us the rich history of the family that owns it. We were lucky enough to meet Corky and hear stories from the man himself. I love that his dad was General Patton's aide!
The double oak bourbon and rye are delicious, but the high rye bourbon was my favorite. A must see, when you're in Louisville!

We visited this time with my son and DIL for a tasting and so happy that Ken was still here. Such a nice guy and very informative. I loved hearing about the history of the distillery. Peerless does a great job hiring because everyone is so nice. The tasting includes a small batch bourbon and rye and a single barrel bourbon and rye with a bonus double batch choice. We enjoyed the single barrels so much we left with four of them as you can't find them anywhere but here. Definite recommend and look forward to visiting again. Thanks Ken (and the lovely lady at the reception desk) for being so accommodating with our wee one.