ShelbyKY is Your Bourbon Destination

ShelbyKY is Your Bourbon Destination. With two distilleries and a short drive to more than 30 others, ShelbyKY is the best place to stay for the Kentucky Bourbon Trail®. Jeptha Creed Distillery is Kentucky’s only distillery owned and operated by a mother and daughter. It is proudly a ground-to-glass distillery: every kernel of corn that goes into Jeptha Creed’s bourbon is grown on the distillery’s family’s farm. Joining Jeptha Creed in ShelbyKY is Bulleit Distilling Co.: a modern, high-tech distillery that distills and ages the iconic Bulleit Bourbon and rye whiskey at a beautiful and modern distillery campus.

Pairing our iconic Southern cuisine with our charming Southern hospitality makes for an iconic Kentucky destination. Home to Claudia Sanders Dinner House, the restaurant started by KFC’s Colonel Sanders for his wife, Claudia, serves the original recipe Col. Sanders developed for crispy fried chicken alongside iconic Southern comfort side dishes and warm, buttery yeast rolls. The Bell House Restaurant on Shelbyville’s Main Street has the best Hot Brown, an iconic Kentucky culinary creation first served in nearby Louisville, made with toasted bread, roasted turkey, crispy bacon, and a fresh slice of tomato, all broiled in the oven with a rich, cheesy mornay sauce.

In ShelbyKY, visitors can explore gorgeous Kentucky horse farms, including North America’s largest Icelandic horse farm, or go horseback riding for a more hands-on experience. Newly opened hotels, like the Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott and the Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, provide hundreds of hotel rooms in the charming rural community, and 130+ vacation rentals are dotted throughout ShelbyKY. Meeting and event planners love the Shelbyville Conference Center for events of all kinds, from fundraising banquets to board retreats and everything in between.

Put all together, ShelbyKY has the best of Kentucky.