Humidor
The Only Walk-In Humidor Between Louisville and Indianapolis: Where Leaf Meets Lake
In the heart of Southern Indiana's Black Forest, we've built something no other distillery in the region offers: a climate-controlled walk-in humidor stocked with hundreds of carefully curated premium cigars. While other establishments hide a few dozen sticks behind glass, you'll step into our cedar-lined sanctuary and browse Connecticut-wrapped mild smokes perfect for afternoon porch sessions, Nicaraguan powerhouses that stand up to our barrel-proof ryes, and everything in between. This isn't an afterthought—it's a destination. Pair your selection with our Sunshine Spirit Old Fashioned (made from sunflower seed moonshine you won't find anywhere else), claim a seat on the saloon balcony, and let the evening unfold. By the time you've smoked through that first cigar, you'll realize you're not driving home tonight. Book one of our 28 hotel rooms, wake to coffee and breakfast at BMF Saloon, and do it all over again tomorrow. The humidor doesn't just sell cigars—it transforms your visit from a tasting stop into a weekend ritual.
Craft Spirits and Premium Cigars Under One Roof: The Pairing Experience You Can't Get at Home
Most people who love bourbon also love cigars, but few places let you explore both arts side-by-side with expert guidance. At Old Homestead, our humidor sits between the tasting room and the saloon—a deliberate design that invites you to pair Alan Bishop's alchemical spirits with leaf that complements every botanical note and barrel char. Try our Black Forest Apple Brandy (distilled from regional heirloom fruit) with a Dominican cigar that brings out the orchard sweetness, or match our 9 Herb Charm absinthe with a milder Connecticut that won't compete with the wormwood intensity. Our staff knows the collection intimately and will guide you toward pairings that create flavor harmonies neither element achieves alone. This isn't something you can replicate at home with a desktop humidor and grocery store spirits. It requires curation, climate control, and the kind of patient evening that only happens when you're staying overnight. Check into the hotel, spend your afternoon in the distillery learning about pot still alchemy, select your cigars with intention, and settle into the saloon for an evening of smoke and spirits that stretches as long as you want it to. No designated driver needed. No rushing. Just you, your cigar, and a beautiful Patoka Lake area sunset.
Where Your Evening Extends Beyond the Expected: The Humidor That Turns Guests Into Regulars
Here's what happens without a humidor: You visit, you taste five spirits, you buy a bottle, you leave in under an hour. Here's what happens with ours: You discover Sunshine Spirits, staff mentions a cigar that pairs perfectly, you walk into the cedar-scented walk-in humidor and suddenly you're holding three different vitolas comparing ring gauges. You order that recommended cocktail, grab a seat on the porch, light up, and an hour becomes three. You strike up a conversation with the couple at the next table who drove up from Louisville. Someone mentions the murder mystery event next month. You're already thinking about booking a room for it. By the time you finish that cigar, you're not a one-time visitor—you're part of the Old Homestead community. The humidor is the hinge that transforms our distillery from a checkbox on the Hoosier bourbon trail into a place you return to, bring friends to, plan weekends around. And because we're also a 28-room hotel, you can indulge fully without watching the clock. Stay Friday and Saturday. Try different pairings each night. Wake up to the smell of BMF Saloon's breakfast instead of a hangover dashboard. The humidor doesn't just sell you a cigar—it gives you permission to slow down and savor, which is exactly what our spirits deserve.
Hoosier Heritage Meets Modern Luxury: Premium Cigars in Indiana's Largest Electric Distillery
We're doing something unusual here: combining cutting-edge sustainability (the largest all-electric pot still distillery in America) with old-world pleasures (a walk-in humidor stocked with boutique rollers and aged premiums). Most people don't expect to find a climate-controlled cigar sanctuary next to a tasting room serving sunflower seed moonshine in rural Indiana, and that's precisely why you need to experience it. Alan Bishop's approach to distilling—heirloom grains, wild yeasts, historical methods—mirrors the craft that goes into every cigar we stock. The tobacco was grown in specific soil, fermented for years, rolled by hand in family operations. When you pair his Black Forest spirits with our curated selection, you're engaging with two crafts that honor time, terroir, and tradition. This isn't Nashville kitsch or Kentucky commercialism. This is Southern Indiana doing it right: pot stills humming with Patoka Lake water, humidor stocked with Padrons and Fuentes, hotel rooms ready when you realize you're not done yet. You won't find this combination anywhere else because nobody else thought to build it. Come for the Sunshine Spirits. Stay because the humidor turned your afternoon into an evening, your evening into a night, and your first visit into the beginning of something you'll return to again and again.