Susan Reigler
Author Bio
Bourbon Authority and Author
Award-winning writer Susan Reigler, author of Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide, The Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks, More Kentucky Bourbon Cocktails, and co-author of The Kentucky Bourbon Cocktail Book, was born in Louisville the year Swaps won the Kentucky Derby. From 1992 to 2007, Reigler was a restaurant critic, beverage columnist and travel writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal. She is a Certified Executive Bourbon Steward by the Society of the Stave & Thief and a member of the Order of the Writ.
Reigler served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Bourbon Women Association from 2015 to 2017. She has presented workshops at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival, Bourbon & Beyond (Louisville), and bourbon festivals in Chicago, New Orleans, Oxford, MS, Smithfield, VA and others. She has lead bourbon tastings from Seattle to Savannah as well tastings to benefit non-profit organizations including Locust Grove, The Falls of the Ohio Foundation, and Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill. She has been a judge for international spirits competitions and bourbon cocktail contests and has helped restaurants and retailers select barrels from Four Roses, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, and more, for private bourbon bottlings.
Reigler currently writes for American Whiskey Magazine and Barleycorndrinks.com. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music from Indiana University and a master’s degree in zoology from the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Humphrey Scholar.
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