Places · Music venue
Leiper's Fork Distillery
Lee and Lynlee Kennedy's distillery on 27 acres of Southall Road, a mile east of the village, making bottled-in-bond Tennessee whiskey, bourbon and rye since 2016. The tasting room and shop are in a log cabin of about 1820 that was taken down in Vanleer and rebuilt here.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Music venue, distillery
- Town
- Leiper's Fork, Williamson County
- Website
- leipersforkdistillery.com
- Phone
- 615-465-6456
- Hours
- Wednesday and Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday to Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
- What it costs
- Tours are priced at booking, and the distillery does not post the price. Leashed dogs are welcome outdoors.
- Parking
- On the grounds, with room for RVs, campers and trailers.
- What is there
- Tours on the hour, about an hour long, for up to 24 people aged 12 and over, booked ahead online.
- Flights at the bar without a booking. By law the bar pours only the distillery's own spirits.
- A 500-gallon copper pot still in a timber-frame stillhouse, making about 25,000 gallons a year.
- Live music Friday to Sunday from March through October, cigar nights on the last Friday of those months, and food trucks on weekends in season.
- Lee Kennedy built his first still at 18, spent three years getting Williamson County's law changed after the state's changed in 2009, and filled the first barrel in the spring of 2016.
- A second tasting room, the House of Spirits, opened at 334 Main Street in downtown Franklin in July 2025.
- Neighborhood guide
- Leiper's Fork: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
- Sources
- Leiper's Fork Distillery
- Leiper's Fork Distillery: visit Leiper's Fork
- Leiper's Fork Distillery: our story
- Tennessee Crossroads, episode 3421
- Williamson Source: Leiper's Fork Distillery to offer half-price pours for Tennessee Whiskey Day (May 15, 2026)
- State of Tennessee address locator: 3381 Southall Rd
This month
The music schedule.
Nothing posted here for the next month. See the whole calendar →
On the Frontline
Where we have written about it.
Nearby
Also in Leiper's Fork.
Dwell and Den.
A woodland-themed shop in the old barn beside the Copper Fox Gallery: books on foraging and cooking, honey, skin care, vintage art prints and children's sweaters.
The Copper Fox Gallery.
Work by more than 90 craftspeople, most from Tennessee and the states around it: pottery, glass, wood, metal, jewelry, leather and furniture, in an 1889 house with a copper roof. John and Talbott Grimm have owned it since 2016; David and Lisa Fox opened it in 2012.
The Country Boy.
The diner Rosalie and Donley Mealer opened across the road from the grocery in 1968. It closed in 2022 when its septic system failed and reopened under Johnny Weber and Cam Harrington late in 2023, serving breakfast and lunch every day and dinner three nights, with the Tornado Room in the basement.
The Tornado Room.
A cocktail bar in the Country Boy's basement since 2024, down a stair on the outside of the building, with bourbon and rye, two free sets of music a night from Thursday to Saturday, and a fire pit out back.
Fox & Locke.
The store Jack Fox and Martin Locke opened in 1947 and moved into this building in 1955, Puckett's Grocery from 1960 to 2022, and since then a meat-and-three, grill and music room under its founders' names again. Bands play Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, and the Thursday open mic draws songwriters out from Nashville.
Lawnchair Theatre.
A screen and a lawn behind Leiper's Creek Gallery where the village brings its own chairs, for free summer movies and ForkFest. Who runs it is not published, and neither is the 2026 film schedule.
Leiper's Creek Gallery.
Lisa Fox's gallery of paintings by about 26 artists, 17 of them local, in a 1953 Gulf station on Old Hillsboro Road. It turned 25 this October, and the Lawnchair Theatre is out back.
Patina Home & Garden.
Antiques, linens, home goods and garden things from the designer Brooke Giannetti and the architect Steve Giannetti, in the village's 1914 general store since October 2022. Fox and Locke opened their first store in this building in 1947.