Kentucky Brewery Tours: Breweries by Town and How to Reach Them
Updated November 2026 · BourbonTown Tours
For Kentucky brewery tours, a group can use a transportation-only booking with BourbonTown Tours: we send a private vehicle and a driver, and your group visits the breweries it has chosen. We run private bourbon distillery tours, not brewery tours, so every brewery below is a place a group can ask to be driven to.
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Quick Facts
- BourbonTown Tours runs private bourbon distillery tours and does not run brewery tours.
- A brewery day fits a transportation-only booking: a private vehicle and a driver for your own plan, with no guide narration.
- Transportation-only rates: SUV for 1 to 6 guests, $100 an hour. Van for 7 to 14 guests, $150 an hour. 4-hour minimum, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee. Billing runs from the time our vehicle leaves our garage until it returns.
- Venue tickets and lunch are on the guest on a transportation-only booking.
- The vehicle arrives for pickup at the guest's hotel or door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington.
- The breweries on this page sit in Louisville, Lexington, Georgetown, Frankfort, Bardstown and Versailles.
Kentucky breweries a group can add on a transportation-only booking
Each line gives a brewery's name and its town. The order is not a ranking, and hours, tours and prices are each brewery's own to set, so none of them appear here.
- Country Boy Brewing, Lexington, with further locations in Georgetown and Louisville
- Noble Funk Brewing Company, Louisville
- Ethereal Brewing, Lexington
- Falls City Beer, Louisville
- Scout & Scholar Brewing Co., Bardstown
- Blue Stallion Brewery, Lexington
- TEN20 Craft Brewery, Louisville
- Monnik Brewery, Louisville
- Sig Luscher Brewery, Frankfort
- Gravely Brewery, Louisville
- Apocalypse Brewery, Louisville
- Atrium Brewery, Louisville
- West 6th Brewery, Lexington
- Mile Wide Beer Co., Louisville
- Gallant Fox Brewery, Louisville
- Akasha Brewery, Louisville
- Versailles Brewing Company, Versailles
Wineries have a list of their own on the Kentucky wine tours page.
Six of the breweries in more detail
Where each of these six sits, from the brewery's own website. As with the list above, tours, hours and prices are each brewery's own to set, and your group arranges its visit with the brewery directly.
Country Boy Brewing
Country Boy's original taproom is on Chair Avenue in Lexington, and the brewery, founded in 2012, also pours at a site on Innovation Way in Georgetown and at a taproom at the Omni in downtown Louisville.
Ethereal Brewing
Ethereal brews on Manchester Street in Lexington's Distillery District, on the grounds of the former James E. Pepper Distillery. Its taps run across sours, IPAs, lagers and barrel-aged beers.
Falls City Beer
Falls City's tap room is on East Liberty Street in Louisville's NuLu neighborhood. The brewery dates its Louisville beer to 1905 and calls itself the city's original brewery.
Noble Funk Brewing Company
Noble Funk is a family-owned brewery on South Second Street in Louisville's SoBro neighborhood, with a kitchen alongside the taps.
Scout & Scholar Brewing Co.
Scout & Scholar is a brewery with its own kitchen on West Flaget Avenue in Bardstown, the same town as the Bardstown distillery cluster.
Versailles Brewing Company
Versailles Brewing Company runs a brewery, taproom and restaurant on Marsailles Road in Versailles, in Woodford County. From a Lexington base, Versailles is about 15 to 20 minutes out.
- Country Boy Brewing
- Noble Funk Brewing Company
- Ethereal Brewing
- Falls City Beer
- Scout & Scholar Brewing Co.
- Blue Stallion Brewery
- TEN20 Craft Brewery
- Monnik Brewery
- Sig Luscher Brewery
- Gravely Brewery
- Apocalypse Brewery
- Atrium Brewery
How a transportation-only brewery day works
A transportation-only booking gives your group our private vehicle and a driver for the hours you book, and the brewery plan is yours to write. The booking is driver only, with no guide narration. You pick the breweries and contact each one about your visit. Venue tickets and lunch are on your group.
The hourly rates and the four-hour minimum are the ones in Quick Facts above. Because the booking is hourly, the drives between towns come out of the time you pay for, so a list spread across Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort needs more hours than a list inside one city. Bourbon tour transportation, hour by hour sets out the terms in full.
Send the breweries on your list with your request, in the order you want them, and the quote will set the hours against that plan. The vehicle and the driver are private to your group for the whole booking.
Custom private tours are built around distilleries
A custom private tour is built around distilleries. Every tour is for one booked group and runs 6 to 8 hours. Custom tours typically run three stops, and we can add or subtract on your planning call. Pricing sits at $275 to $425 per person depending on group size, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee; that covers everything except lunch and driver gratuity. For the figures by headcount, see Kentucky bourbon tour costs by group size. A professional guide drives the tour and stays with the group. On a distillery day, we book distillery tickets once your tour is confirmed, against your actual dates, and confirm every reservation in the itinerary.
Add-ons people ask for on a custom tour include the Louisville Slugger Museum, Churchill Downs and Keeneland, and how to plan a Kentucky bourbon trip shows where each one fits in a day. Custom private bourbon tours explains how a distillery day is put together, and what every private tour includes lists the inclusions one by one.
How far the brewery towns sit from the pickup cities
Louisville is home to 10 of the 17 breweries listed, and Country Boy has a taproom there too, so a group staying there starts the day in the same city as most of the list. From Louisville, Bardstown is about 50 minutes away and downtown Lexington about 90, with the Frankfort and Versailles cluster at about 60.
A group based in Lexington has four of the listed breweries in town, with Versailles about 15 to 20 minutes away and Buffalo Trace in Frankfort about 30. From Bardstown, Frankfort is about 50 minutes and Lexington about 75.
Put Georgetown on the list you send with your request, and the hours on your quote will reflect it. To talk the order of a brewery day through before you book, a real person answers 1-844-BOURBON.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a BourbonTown Tours brewery tour?
No. BourbonTown Tours runs private bourbon distillery tours and has no brewery tour of its own. A brewery day fits a Transportation Only booking. Transportation Only puts our private vehicle and driver on the plan you make: SUV for 1 to 6 guests, $100 an hour. Van for 7 to 14 guests, $150 an hour. 4-hour minimum, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee. Billing runs from the time our vehicle leaves our garage until it returns. The breweries on this page sit in Louisville, Lexington, Georgetown, Frankfort, Bardstown and Versailles, so keeping a brewery day inside one city keeps the billed drive hours down. You choose the breweries and pay at each one.
How does a transportation-only brewery day work?
Your group chooses the breweries and their order, and our private vehicle and driver run that list for the hours you book, at the hourly rates above. Drives between towns come out of those hours, so a list spread across Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort needs more hours than a list inside one city.
Who arranges the brewery visits on a transportation-only day?
Your group does. On a transportation-only booking you choose the breweries and contact each one about your visit, while we supply the private vehicle and the driver. Venue tickets and lunch are on your group in this format. There is a driver on this format, not a guide. Send your list of stops with the request, and our bourbon tour transportation terms cover the rest of what this format includes.
Which vehicle will our group ride in?
The vehicle follows your headcount: Audi A8 sedan up to 3 guests; GMC Yukon XL SUV 1 to 6 guests; Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van 7 to 14 guests (seats 14); Ford Transit vans (seat 12). Groups over 14 travel in multiple vehicles or a bus or motor coach we contract. The fleet, vehicle by vehicle sets out who each one suits.
Where does a transportation-only brewery day start?
It starts with pickup at the guest's hotel or door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington; airport pickup can be arranged. Louisville holds most of the breweries on this page, while a Lexington base puts Versailles about 15 to 20 minutes away. Where to stay for a Kentucky bourbon tour compares the three pickup cities and what each one puts within reach.
Send us the breweries on your list
Tell us your dates, how many are in the group and which breweries you plan to visit, and we will quote the vehicle and the hours.
We reply the same day between 8 AM and 8 PM Eastern. Requests after 8 PM get a reply the next morning.