5/16/2023 0 Comments Izoom indianaThe Nashville location offers the convenience of a drive-thru, as well as locally roasted Brown County Coffee, so tourists with a sweet tooth can easily caffeinate before heading back home. Photo by Tony Valainis The Chocolate MooseĪ longtime Bloomington favorite, the Brown County version of this ice cream shop ( 278 Van Buren St., Nashville, 81) has all the homemade flavors (we loved the cinnamon), even more sandwich options, and of course soft serve, stir-ins, and snow cones. Satisfy your sweet tooth with a few scoops of ice cream at The Chocolate Moose. There’s great new dining in Brown County beyond the Hard Truth campus. The campus features a Tours and Tasting Center, working distillery, massive restaurant with a gift shop, and an amphitheater for live music beneath the Brown County stars. I can’t go back there, but I can visit the wooded Hard Truth grounds, which feel so grand when you enter through sculpted metal gates off of the old state road. ![]() If I zoom in on Google Earth and look hard, I can sometimes spot a roofline engulfed in waves of green, and then the outline of the horse barn and adjacent pond. I haven’t stepped foot on the property in decades, but I never miss an opportunity to drive by it when I’m in the area. When we saddled up the horses in my Uncle Don’s barn down the road and plodded through that ATV-friendly territory, my older cousins would ride ahead, holding back the errant branches and briars along our path while I imagined myself a cowgirl from The Apple Dumpling Gang universe.īoth of my grandparents are gone now. It felt rugged and exotic, expansive and humbling. Even as a kid-a subdivision rat from Indianapolis-I knew it was something special, and I would sneak out the sliding glass doors after Thanksgiving dinners to get my tree-gazing fix. That view was a family heirloom of sorts-something I savored on every trip to Grandma and Grandpa’s house. The house had a wooden deck overlooking the same verdant miles of Southern Indiana’s version of an ocean vista. ![]() ![]() Sometime in the 1970s, my grandparents built a little cedar-stained cottage along Old Nashville Road, not far from this very spot. The spectacle felt comfortingly familiar. But all I wanted to do after finishing my beer-battered fish sandwich and Piña Funkalada (a frothy riff on the piña colada with a splash of the house cinnamon vodka) at Hard Truth’s onsite restaurant was to step out on the upper deck and soak up the view-a cymbal crash of treetops trailing off to a bumpy horizon. Mixology classes, beer-making classes, and an $800 Moonshiner’s Experience are on offer as well. Photo by Tony ValainisĪt Hard Truth Distilling Co., Brown County’s scenic craft spirits destination, visitors can explore the 325-acre grounds in an all-terrain buggy or take in the surrounding woods on the 45-minute Captain Barker’s Hike ’N Holler guided walking tour. Enjoy the scenery and a cocktail at Hard Truth.
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