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The NBC Journal
Field notes, guides, and stories from the team behind Nashville's #1 most-reviewed whiskey experience. The bourbon trail, the barrel-pick game, the bars worth your time, and what we're tasting this week.
Nashville Guide · Bachelorette
Skip the Broadway bar crawl. The Blend Your Own Whiskey session gives every guest a one-of-a-kind custom bottle. Here’s how to plan a Nashville bachelorette around it.
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Nashville Travel · Downtown
You’ve got tickets. You’re downtown early. Nashville Barrel Company’s tasting room is a 3-minute walk from the Ryman — the best pre-show whiskey stop in the city.
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Sourcing · Transparency
Full transparency on NBC’s sourcing — Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee distilleries. The real answer on Nashtucky, MGP, Dickel, and how we hand-select barrels.
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Featured · Travel Guide
Distilleries, BBQ, fine dining, honky-tonks. The complete two-day Nashville Bourbon Trail itinerary from the team that lives here — written like we'd write it for a close friend.
Distillery Tours
An honest, locally-written roundup of the distillery tours actually worth your afternoon — what each one does well, what to skip, and how to build a half-day around them.
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Whiskey 101
Restaurants and bottle shops have been doing private barrel picks for years. Here's what actually happens in the rickhouse, why no two barrels taste the same, and how to pick one yourself.
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Press · Recognition
The Nashville Scene’s Whiskey Wednesday column on what was happening at Nashville Barrel Company — expansion, awards, and what comes next for the distillery on Fesslers Lane.
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News · Louisville
WDRB breaks the news: Nashville Barrel Company is opening its first Kentucky location in NuLu — bringing the award-winning barrel program straight into the heart of bourbon country.
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Brands · Nashtucky
Where the Bluegrass meets the Volunteer State. The story behind Nashtucky Whiskey Co. — premium Kentucky bourbon and rye, finished and bottled in Nashville with the same obsessive quality standards that built NBC.
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The Journal exists because we like stories. The whiskey exists because we like making it. Come do both — Fesslers Lane HQ or our downtown Tasting Room, walk-ins welcome.