Kentucky Artisan Distillery

Kentucky Artisan Distillery is a unique place in the craft distillery world. A visit to KAD shows the real side of Kentucky craft distilling. Led by our Head Distiller, Jade Peterson, our team of distillers run a distillery that is devoid of iPads, rather using their senses to know when a batch is finished. Our distillery is truly as close as a production facility in the 21stcentury can get to how bourbon was made 200 years ago.

On any warm day all through the growing season, on your drive up to the distillery, you may see our tractors hauling corn or rye, harvested from a field just a mile away. They are coming from the 700 acres at Waldeck Farm, where we contract grow our grains. All under our careful and time-tested process, these grains will undergo the process of malting, milling, mashing, distilling, aging and bottling under the names of some of our favorite small batch brands, right here at Kentucky Artisan Distillery. We even up-cycle our spent grain locally to Oldham and Henry County farms to feed their cattle.

Every tour of KAD is a behind the scenes tour. Built first as a distillery, and then having tours added later, allows visitors to immerse themselves in a true craft distillery. Ask a distiller that question you’ve always wanted the answer to, walk into our laboratory, run your hands through the grains and sample the finished product.