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Welcome to The B-Line®! Northern Kentucky's self-guided Bourbon Trail

The B-Line® is comprised of 5 Craft Distilleries - all of which are also on The Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour® - 8 Bourbon Bars, all of which have been named The Best Bourbon Bars in America by The Bourbon Review - and 6 Bourbon-centric Restaurants. All 19 stops are located throughout Covington, Newport, Independence, Sparta, Augusta, and Maysville, Kentucky.

Check in on your B-Line Line Guide at any two of the distilleries on The B-Line®, two of the bars, and two of the restaurants and we'll send you a free gift of your choosing. Like a B-Line hat, t-shirt, engraved Glencairn glass, and more!

Who Exactly is on The B-Line®?

Choose which of the five Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour® Distilleries – New Riff Distilling, Boone County Distilling Co., Neeley Family Distillery, The Old Pogue Distillery, and Second Sight Spirits – you’d like to visit. Or go to all 5 for a wealth of unique bourbon experiences!

Visit some of the eight bourbon-centric bars, all with a culture of their own, and all named to The Bourbon Review’s list of The Best Bourbon Bars in America: The Globe Covington, Rich’s Proper Food and Drink, Wiseguy Lounge, Old Kentucky Bourbon Bar aka OKBB, Bourbon Haus 1841, and Smoke Justis – all in Covington, Ky. – Prohibition Bourbon Bar in Newport, Ky. and Three Spirits Tavern in Bellevue, Ky.

Finally, try the six amazing restaurants cultivating the freshest tastes in bourbon culinary delights – Bouquet Restaurant, Libby’s Southern Comfort, Coppin’s at the Hotel Covington – all in Covington, Ky. – The Purple Poulet in Newport, Ky. and the Beehive Augusta Tavern in Augusta, Ky.

We welcome you to the edge and beginning of the “Bourbon State” — Kentucky. Our state is the epicenter of Bourbon Culture & History. You enter it after crossing the original Bourbon Line, the Ohio River, which transported the first bourbon throughout the U.S.

We’re also a short B-Line away from the heart of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®. Create your own unique bourbon experience, starting on The B-Line®. Let us help you “find your sipping point.