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2 Tailgates: ACC and SEC One Top 25 Matchup Infinite Beer and Bourbon Elite Dudes
Wheels Down, Pints Up
Land, drop bags at HQ, Walmart, and hit the Ale Trail.
Flights are ~$200 cheaper into Cincinnati (~1:40 from the Airbnb) — if there's a ton of interest in flying into CVG, we can probably figure out a one-way ~12-person van each way, and the math might math.
HQ · The Highlands · 965 Baxter Ave, Louisville, KY 40204
Airport → HQ → Walmart order arriving 2–4 PM.
Groceries and Supplies — 14 Dudes, Weekend Order
Gear — buy first
- Coolers ×3 (two 70-qt drinks, one 50-qt food)
- Folding tables ×2
- Red Solo cups ×200
- Cornhole set
- Pong balls ×36
- Dice ×6
- Footballs ×2
- Trash bags (30 ct)
- Paper towels ×6
- Koozies ×14
- Bottle openers ×3
- Paper plates ×100, napkins, plastic cutlery
- Sunscreen ×2
Friday tailgate drinks
- Beer — 5 cases (120)
- Seltzer — 1 case (24)
- Bourbon — 2 handles (1.75 L)
- Water — 2 cases (48)
- Gatorade — 12
- Ginger ale — 4 L; cola — 4 L
- Ice — 6 bags (buy Friday)
Saturday tailgate drinks
- Beer — 7 cases (168)
- Seltzer — 2 cases (48)
- Bourbon — 2 handles + 1 fifth
- Water — 3 cases (72)
- Gatorade — 24
- Ice — 8 bags (buy Saturday)
Friday breakfast is a Biscuit Belly pre-order and lunch is at Troll Pub (details in Friday). Saturday breakfast is a bagel pre-order and the tailgate is catered by Red State BBQ (details in Saturday).4:00 PM — keep scrolling.
The Ale Trail
Uber to TEN20 Craft Brewery and walk our way home. Walk times are on the map.
TEN20 Craft Brewery — 1020 E Washington St
Getting there: one 8-minute Uber from HQ at 3:45 — the only ride of the night.
22,000-sq-ft beer hall with a beer garden and rooftop.
Signature beer: the house Premium Lager — crisp and clean.
Gravely Brewing Co. — 905 E Main St
The self-declared world's first music brewery — live-music energy, patios, Latin kitchen.
Signature beer: Debaser — their flagship NE IPA, one of the "Core Four."
Food checkpoint: tacos and loaded nachos. Next food: wings at stop 3.
West Sixth NuLu — 817 E Market St
Courtyard taproom, pinball, Lexington roots — a UK warm-up for Saturday.
Signature beer: West Sixth IPA — the green can in every Kroger in Kentucky.
Food: wings and tots if the tacos didn't happen.
Akasha Brewing — 909 E Market St
NuLu's funky sour house — board games, 20-oz pours, bar cat named Roxy.
Signature beer: Fehr's XL — Louisville's 1872 pre-Prohibition lager, once the most-consumed beer in the city, resurrected from the original recipe.
Mile Wide Beer Co. — 636 Barret Ave
Taproom behind a grain silo in an old biscuit factory — pinball, arcade, beer garden.
Signature beer: Idlewild — their flagship IPA: dry, crisp, tropical.
Food checkpoint (last one): Mac’s brick-oven pizza.
Awry Brewing — 1025 Barret Ave
Rooftop deck, legendary bathrooms. Three blocks from HQ.
Signature beer: Normal Boy — the taproom's cult-favorite lager.
Home
Route ends at the front door.
Museum into an ACC Showdown
Florida State @ Louisville — L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium. Kickoff 7 PM.
Breakfast — Biscuit Belly NuLu
Pre-ordered ahead of time — pick your sandwich in the order form ↗. Browse the menu ↗ first.
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
800 W Main St, a 12-minute drive — bat factory tour, game-used lumber, free mini bat. ~90 minutes, admission ~$20–22.
Lunch — Troll Pub Under the Bridge
150 W Washington St — a short hop from the Slugger Museum.
Tailgate at the house
Back to HQ — lots of snacks and bites, drinks from the coolers, yard games out back.
Roll toward the stadium
Leave the house for a bar near campus — or straight to the stadium.
Kickoff — Florida State at Louisville
Seats together — section info to come.
Back to HQ, then bars
Home to the Highlands after the game — then on foot. Only places open past midnight made the map:
Post-game, post-midnight
Every pin here is still pouring after 12. Walk times from HQ on the lines.
SEC Main Event: LSU at Kentucky
Kroger Field, Lexington. Every one of the driver's 15 legal hours: 11 AM to 2 AM.
Breakfast sandwich delivery
Pre-ordered bagel sandwiches from Maya Bagel Express land at HQ. Browse the menu ↗, then order: Orders due Tuesday, 10/6 in the form ↗ — one per man, name on it.
Bus departs HQ
Blue-stripe coach today. The driver's 15-hour clock starts — everything for the day gets loaded now.
Arrive Kroger Field lots
1540 University Dr. Exact lot pin updates when we buy the parking pass. Red State BBQ catering deployed on arrival.
The true barbecue
Catered by Red State BBQ; cornhole, pong, die, football; bourbon in blue cups.
Kickoff — LSU at Kentucky
Kroger Field — capacity 61,000. Night game.
Bus home — 2:00 AM at HQ
The 11 AM–2 AM window is the driver's entire legal day. The bus leaves when it must.
Bars?
Highlands Tap Room is open until 4 AM — an 8-minute walk from HQ.
The Morning After
Checkout and flights. The kitchen is closed — no food is given.
Checkout
Pending instructions.
Food: fend for yourself
On your own.
Drive to SDF — ~20 minutes
UA 3569 departs 11:15 AM, lands EWR 1:31 PM. NFL Sunday — SDF has TVs at the gates.