Saturday, July 7, 2018

Whiskey Distiller's Aging Warehouse Crumbles

July 4th - A different kind of bourbon boom .....

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky officials say the final collapse of a whiskey storage warehouse sent torrents of spirits gushing into retention ponds. A storage structure for aging bourbon for the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown suffered partial structural failure in late June, and the rest of decades-old structure came crashing down earlier this week, leaving thousands of whiskey barrels piled in a mountainous heap.

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The partial collapse  in June ......
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Bourbon's boom ........