A one-hour guided distillery experience lets visitors taste a single barrel of American brandy and a single barrel of bourbon, then fill, cork, label, and sign their own bottle to take home.
Tour format: one-hour guided experience with a welcome cocktail, barrel cellar tasting, pot still room walkthrough, and two single-barrel tastings.
Brand connection: Copper & Kings offers side-by-side tastings to show the links between bourbon and American brandy — their brandies age in bourbon barrels and their bourbons finish in brandy barrels.
# What the relaunched Bottle Your Own tour offers
The tour begins with a complimentary welcome cocktail made with American brandy aged in bourbon barrels. Guests move into the barrel cellar to taste Revival American Brandy and Kings Proof Bourbon side by side, then proceed to the copper pot still room. The itinerary includes a special tasting pour that's usually reserved for the distillery's Kings Bottle Club members.
# Why the experience matters for visitors
Copper & Kings frames the tour to make the technical and sensory relationship between bourbon and American brandy tangible. The distillery's CEO, Rob Bourdon, describes the process plainly: the brandies age in bourbon barrels, and the bourbons finish in brandy barrels. The side-by-side tastings and the opportunity to bottle your own sample give visitors a direct, personal way to compare the categories.
# Logistics and cost
# What visitors will physically do and take home
A filled bottle becomes a labeled souvenir that reflects a specific single-barrel selection sampled during the tour.
# Audience and planning tips
The tour is suited to people who want hands-on tasting and context about how American brandy and bourbon interact, plus collectors or visitors who want a personalized bottle to take home. Because group sizes are limited, make reservations ahead of time. Bring valid ID to meet the 21+ requirement for bottling.
Rob Bourdon, CEO of Copper & Kings, summarized the approach: "We make brandy the way Kentucky makes bourbon, but we do it our own way — using fruit, pot stills, used barrels, and an underground cellar." He adds that visitors often understand the connection between the spirits after participating and filling their own bottle.
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