![]() ![]() Projects include new and expanded production facilities, more warehousing and bottling lines and new and expanded tourism centers. The state’s bourbon sector is in the midst of a $2.3 billion-plus building boom among KDA members - signaling distillers’ confidence that growing demand for their spirits will continue. Kentucky distillers produce 95% of the world’s bourbon, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. Half of a warehouse collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown in June 2018, and the other half came down two weeks later. The painstaking process of recovering barrels is continuing as part of the distiller’s overall plan that included taking down the entire structure.Īnother Kentucky bourbon barrel warehouse collapsed last year. A new inquest into the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub firebombing re-opened in Brisbane on Monday - 48 years after the first inquest into what was then Australia's worst mass murder. Last month, a storm caused the partial collapse of a warehouse at O.Z. The Beam fire was the latest warehouse loss suffered by a Kentucky distiller. The distiller said it operates 126 barrel warehouses in Kentucky that hold about 3.3 million barrels for its brands. Existing containment berms were reinforced with sand to try to prevent runoff into the creek, he said.īeam Suntory officials said the distiller has a “comprehensive” warehouse safety program that includes regular inspections and “rigorous protocols” to promote safety. The destroyed warehouse, near the Woodford-Franklin county line, was about 100 yards (91 meters) from Glenns Creek, a tributary of the Kentucky River, he said. “It melted lights off some of the firetrucks, it got so hot,” Chandler said. The whisky which retails for about 36 to 125 a bottle, depending on the size was never reported as being seized during the arrest and was not submitted as evidence to the property locker. The orange glow from the inferno could be seen miles away, he said.įirefighters who withstood the intense heat were able to keep the flames from spreading to some other nearby storage warehouses, he said. The classic American whiskey brand is owned by Suntory Holdings Ltd., a Japanese beverage company.Īuthorities were alerted about the fire shortly after 11:35 p.m. Jim Beam is the world’s best-selling bourbon brand. A second warehouse sustained minor exterior damage but its contents remained intact, the company said. The distiller said it was grateful to the “courageous firefighters” who brought the blaze under control and kept it from spreading. If all the barrels held bourbon, that would be a loss of at least 6 million bottles, the Louisville newspaper reported. One standard bourbon barrel usually holds about 53 gallons of bourbon that eventually turns into around 150 to 200 750 milliliter bottles, the Courier Journal reported. ![]()
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