An operating bourbon site combines manufacturing heritage and cooperage interpretation with tours, tastings, and hospitality uses in restored or adapted buildings.
Locator type: Section
Reader locator: Chapter 2, “Louisville: The Beginning of Bourbon Country,” Old Forester Distillery description beginning “The 100 block of West Main”
Pagination: The supplied reflowed edition has no verified printed-page mapping; use the named passage above.
Source section: Louisville distillery site profile
The guide inventories both operational and public-facing functions at one distillery destination.
Corroborates that distillery sites operate as institutional complexes rather than single-purpose production buildings.
Status: Verified
Verified against rendered PDF sheet 59 on 2026-08-24; concise paraphrase.