My niece and grand-niece from Maine asked if we go and the JD distillery, I suggested we start by going to the George Dickel Distllery and check them out. They agreed, so we took the SUV being there were three of us.
We left Shelbyville heading south on 41A to Normandy Road and then as we crossed the railroad tracks in Normandy turned immediately right onto Cascade Hollow Road, driving about 1½ miles to the distillery.
The Dickel General Store is quaint, housing the post office, liquor store. The distillery tour is not a very long walking and you’re not allowed to take pictures or to video in the still house because the danger of grain dust explosion. They grind their own grains for the mash and they use open-vat fermentation, so the smallest spark could from a camera could cause an explosion. You do not get to see the inside of any of the barrel houses, but you do get to see a mock-up in the old bottling plant.
Leaving Cascade Hollow we returned to Normandy and turned south on Highway 269 to head to Jack Daniels. In Tullahoma we headed west on highway 50 to Lynchburg.
We arrived after lunch in Lynchburg, they decided that before doing anything else they had to get food as they were starving. After having lunch in the Iron Kettle, the girls declared they had enough strength to go shopping before any more tours.
It turns out the shopping was more important that another tour, but the girls found plenty of JD souvenoirs to take home. We left on Highway 50 traveling a short distance to 129 and heading west to Spankem and then heading north to New Church Center Road and then Snell to Dixon Highway to Knight Campground road and then west on Hyway 64 to home.
February 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[...] Miki wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMy niece and grand-niece from Maine asked if we go and the JD distillery, I suggested we start by going to the George Dickel Distllery and check them out. They agreed, so we took the SUV being there were three of us. We left Shelbyville heading south on 41A to Normandy Road and then as we crossed the railroad tracks in Normandy turned immediately right onto Cascade Hollow Road, driving about 1½ miles to the distillery. The Dickel General Store is quaint, housing the post office, liquor store. The distillery tour is not a very long walking and you’re not allowed to take pictures or to video in the still house because the danger of grain dust explosion. They grind their own grains for the mash and they use open-vat fermentation, so the smallest spark could from a camera could cause an explosion. You do not get to see the inside of […] [...]
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