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One of Crill Brown's guilty pleasures is to sit down to relax with a glass of bourbon on the rocks. Generally he prefers Maker's Mark. So, when Brown and his wife, Judi, were planning a trip to Florida to see their grandchildren, the couple from St. Louis said they decided to take a few days and tour Kentucky's bourbon country — stopping in seven bourbon distilleries in the heart of the Bluegrass State. "I'm terribly glad we came," Crill Brown says as he sips Woodford Reserve from a shot glass after taking his final tour on the Bourbon Trail. "I learned a lot here that I'd never heard before." Each year, thousands of tourists are coming to Kentucky distilleries. Last year, the six distilleries that make up Kentucky's Bourbon Trail recorded more than 450,000 visits. And the Kentucky Distillers' Association reports visits have increased by about 10% to 12% annually. Kentucky is one of a growing number of states seeing more and more visitors coming to tour distilleries, vineyards...