Kentucky's Barton 1792 Distillery Collapses
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down. In a statement, the company said its employees worked quickly to contain the spill Wednesday, with none of the new runoff entering any waterways.
The remainder of the massive structure collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt Spalding said. No injuries were reported in either collapse, he said.
It is a mountain of bourbon barrels, he said Wednesday. It is unknown how many barrels can be salvaged, CBS Louisville affiliate WLKY reports.
Environmental and wildlife officials were on the scene to determine if any whiskey spilled into a nearby waterway, he said. The distillery owner Sazerac, a Louisiana-based spirits company, already was facing a state fine stemming from the initial collapse.
After the initial collapse last month, the company said the damaged warehouse had held about 18,000 barrels of aging spirits. Up to half the barrels inside were affected by the first collapse, it said.
The company said at the time that the collapse had affected a mix of various distilled products at various ages. On Wednesday, it said it did not know how many barrels can be salvaged or what caused the initial collapse.
Cleanup crews have been at the scene for days, and the company called in more resources after the second collapse, Spalding said Wednesday. The warehouse was built in the 1940s.
Following the first collapse, a Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet spokesman said Sazerac would be cited for failing to report the spill of whiskey in a timely manner and for polluting waters. The spokesman said Barton 1792 moved quickly to stop the alcohol from entering the creek but didn't alert the state quickly enough.
Whiskey flowing into a nearby stream and river killed about 800 fish after the initial collapse, officials said. Bardstown is about 40 miles south of Louisville.
Nelson County Emergency Management director Joe Prewitt said last month he couldn't recall another whiskey warehouse collapse.
Bourbon ages for years in charred new oak barrels, where it acquires its color and flavor.
Sazerac also owns Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Kentucky's bourbon sector is in the midst of a more than $1.1 billion boom that includes expanded production facilities, more storage warehouses and new tourism centers. Kentucky distillers have more than 6.6 million bourbon barrels aging, according to the Kentucky Distillers' Association.
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✍ LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after part of the decades-old structure came crashing down. In a statement, the company said its employees worked quickly to contain the spill Wednesday, with none of the new runoff entering any waterways. The remainder of the massive structure collapsed at the Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt Spalding said. No injuries were reported in either collapse, he said. It is a mountain of bourbon barrels, he said Wednesday. It is unknown how many barrels can be salvaged, CBS Louisville affiliate WLKY reports. Environmental and wildlife officials were on the scene to determine if any whiskey spilled into a nearby waterway, he said. The distillery owner Sazerac, a Louisiana-based spirits company, already was facing a state fine stemming from the initial collapse. Afte ...
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Whiskey Distillery Aging Warehouse Crumbles
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.
John Mura, a spokesman for the state Energy and Environment Cabinet, said Friday about 120,000 gallons have been captured in two retention ponds.
The distillery owner Sazerac, a Louisiana-based spirits company, didn't immediately comment on the volume of spirits ending up in the ponds. The company has said it didn't know how many barrels could be salvaged.
Mura says testing has turned up no indication of waterways being contaminated by whiskey spilled in the second collapse.
Following the first collapse, a Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet spokesman said Sazerac would be cited for failing to report the spill of whiskey in a timely manner and for polluting waters. The spokesman said Barton 1792 moved quickly to stop the alcohol from entering the creek but didn't alert the state quickly enough.
Whiskey flowing into a nearby stream and river killed about 800 fish after the initial collapse, officials said. Bardstown is about 40 miles south of Louisville.
Nelson County Emergency Management director Joe Prewitt said last month he couldn't recall another whiskey warehouse collapse.
Bourbon ages for years in charred new oak barrels, where it acquires its color and flavor.
Sazerac also owns Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Kentucky's bourbon sector is in the midst of a more than $1.1 billion boom that includes expanded production facilities, more storage warehouses and new tourism centers. Kentucky distillers have more than 6.6 million bourbon barrels aging, according to the Kentucky Distillers' Association.
BARDSTOWN, Ky. - Late Friday morning, about 9,000 barrels of aging bourbon crashed to the ground after a building collapsed at the Barton 1792 distillery, WLKY-TV reported.
According to WHAS-TV, the Bardstown, Kentucky, bourbon warehouse holds 20,000 barrels.
Milt Spalding, information officer for Nelson County Emergency Management, said they don't know what caused the collapse and the cause is still under investigation.
WLKY reported that water samples from the area have come back clean and the EPA is on scene.
No one was injured in the collapse.
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O.Z. Tyler Damaged Whiskey Warehouse Deconstruction
This video, provided by the distillery, shows an overview of the deconstruction process of the O.Z. Tyler damaged whiskey aging warehouse in Kentucky. Note how the barrels are literally being removed one at a time.
A Tour Of Heaven Hill Distilleries
On our recent trip to Kentucky we had the opportunity to take a private tour of Heaven Hill Distilleries. The facility was impressive, and the sheer amount of bourbon they're storing there was mind boggling. Well worth the time if you're ever in the area.
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Beetles and Bourbon Rickhouses Don't Mix (WhiskyCast Episode 710: June 28, 2018)
While the cause of last Friday's warehouse collapse at Kentucky's Barton 1792 Distillery is still not known, the whiskey industry has known for years about the problems so-called powderpost beetles can cause in a rickhouse. Anobiid beetles dig deeply into old, untreated wood as larvae, then chew their way out as adults, and are capable of weakening the structural integrity of a wooden structure over many years. University of Kentucky entomology professor Michael Potter is an expert on these beetles, and has worked with Barton 1792 and other distilleries over his 27 years at UK. He'll join us on WhiskyCast In-Depth, and we'll also have details as state officials plan to cite Sazerac for environmental damage from the whiskey spilled in the rickhouse collapse.
History of Heavenhill
Max Shapira gives a brief account of the founding of Heaven Hill Distilleries Inc.
My Review of the Barton's 1792 Estate Tour (Day 7.3)
For specifics on the Barton's 1792 Estate Tour and Tasting and how to plan your visit go to:
There you'll find more details including maps, website links, ideas of perks from each distillery I visited, extra insights and my takeaways.
My tour started at 11:00 AM, the warehouse collapse was at 10:55 AM...nope, didn't hear it!
HOW TO DO A KENTUCKY BOURBON TOUR
In addition to this stop, I visited 18 other distilleries on this trip. Find out more about each by visiting And I'd love for you to subscribe to my channel. This is just the first in a series of video blogs I will be developing as I travel the globe.
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Rush-hour Louisville freeway entry 2015-05-28
A drive in the rain north from Bardstown, Kentucky to Louisville, the state's biggest.city, albeit not the capital.
5:15 Entering downtown Bardstown, Kentucky
7:25-7:45 Passing Barton 1792 Distillery
300 Barton Rd
Bardstown, KY 40004
9:10 Entering Bluegrass Parkway (KY 9002) west
25:45 Entering Interstate 65 north
1:11:20 Exiting at Exit 134A South Jackson Street, Louisville, Kentucky
1:12:20 Arriving in health-care / hospital district of Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, with the other being the state's second-largest city of Lexington. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County.
Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark and is named after King Louis XVI of France, making Louisville one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states. Today the city is known as the home of the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies.[9] Its main airport is also the site of UPS's worldwide air hub.
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Jim Beam distillery, Clermont, Kentucky, United States, North America
Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky. It was one of the best selling brands of bourbon in the world in 2008. Since 1795 (interrupted by Prohibition), seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in whiskey production for the company that produces the brand, which was given the name Jim Beam in 1933 in honor of James B. Beam, who rebuilt the business after Prohibition ended. The Jim Beam Bourbon brand is now owned and produced by Beam Inc. (NYSE: BEAM), which is a company formed on October 4, 2011 from part of the holding company formerly known as Fortune Brands. Beam is headquartered in the suburbs of Chicago, in Deerfield, Illinois. The Beam / Noe family that founded the business is still involved in the company. The company produces several varieties of bourbon, other spirits, and food products that include bourbon as an ingredient. During the late 18th century, members of the Boehm family, who eventually changed the spelling of their surname to Beam, emigrated from Germany and settled in Kentucky. Johannes Reginald Beam (1770-1834) was a farmer that began producing whiskey in the style that became known as bourbon. Jacob Beam sold his first barrels of corn whiskey around 1795. The whiskey was first called Old Jake Beam, and the distillery was known as Old Tub. David Beam (1802--1854) took on his father's responsibilities in 1820 at the age of 18, expanding distribution of the family's bourbon during a time of industrial revolution. David M. Beam (1833--1913) in 1854 moved the distillery to Nelson County to capitalize on the growing network of railroad lines connecting states. James Beauregard Beam (1864--1947) managed the family business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933 in Clermont, Kentucky, near his Bardstown home. James B. Beam Distilling Company was founded in 1935 by Harry L. Homel, Oliver Jacobson, H. Blum and Jerimiah Beam. From this point forward, the bourbon would be called Jim Beam Bourbon after James Beauregard Beam, and some of the bottle labels bear the statement, None Genuine Without My Signature with the signature James B. Beam.[citation needed] T. Jeremiah Beam (1899--1977) started working at the Clear Springs distillery in 1913, later becoming the master distiller and overseeing operations at the new Clermont facility. Jeremiah Beam eventually gained full ownership and opened a second distillery near Boston, Kentucky, in 1954. Jeremiah later teamed up with childhood friend Jimberlain Joseph Quinn, to expand the enterprise. Booker Noe (1929--2004), birth name Frederick Booker Noe II, was the Master Distiller at the Jim Beam Distillery for more than 40 years, working closely with Master Distiller Jerry Dalton (1998--2007). In 1987 Booker introduced his own namesake bourbon, Booker's, the company's first uncut, straight-from-the-barrel bourbon, and the first of the company's Small Batch Bourbon Collection. Fred Noe (1957--present), birth name Frederick Booker Noe III, became the seventh generation Beam family distiller in 2007 and regularly travels for promotional purposes. In 1987, Jim Beam purchased National Brands, acquiring brands including Old Crow, Bourbon de Luxe, Old Taylor, Old Grand-Dad, and Sunny Brook. Old Taylor was subsequently sold to the Sazerac Company. The Beam family has also played a major role in the history of the Heaven Hill Distillery. All of the Master Distillers at Heaven Hill since its founding have been members of the Beam family. The original Master Distiller at Heaven Hill was Joseph L. Beam, Jim Beam's first cousin. He was followed by his son, Harry, who was followed by Earl Beam, the son of Jim Beam's brother, Park. Earl Beam was then succeeded by the current Heaven Hill Master Distillers, Parker Beam and his son, Craig Beam. In the history of the brand now known as Jim Beam, there have been seven generations of distillers from the Beam (and Noe) family. Retired Master Distiller Jerry Dalton (1998--2007) was the first non-Beam to be Master Distiller at the company, and his successor was a member of the family.
Exceptional Experience: Bourbon Country
Bardstown may be the most beautiful small town in america, but did you know it's also the Bourbon Capital of the World? When you visit Bardstown, you'll learn firsthand how the likes of Beam, Craig, Crow, Samuels, and others created and perfected America’s only native spirit. With distilleries like Makers Mark, Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Barton 1792, Four Roses, and Willet all close by, you can go behind the scenes to see first hand the step-by-step process of distilling, from the sour mash, to the rick houses, to the bottles. Once your tour and tasting is complete, head on over to the Kentucky Bourbon Marketplace, located in the heart of downtown Bardstown, to pick up any souvenirs you may have missed along the way. Then sample bourbons and enjoy the atmosphere in the unique tasting bar to end your day. And if you just can’t get enough bourbon, join us in September for the world renowned annual Bourbon Festival. The distilleries come together for this celebration of history and heritage that you can't find anywhere else. And opening in 2016, a brand new distillery, The Bardstown Bourbon Company, will serve as the Gateway into Bardstown from Lexington. So whether you want to explore the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History, the only museum in the country dedicated the history of bourbon distilling, or simply just want to take in sights and samples at one of the area’s popular distilleries, this is one exceptional experience that you won’t want to miss.
Pyramid bourbon distillery planned for Bardstown
Pyramid bourbon distillery planned for Bardstown
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Bardstown Kentucky Town Creek Pollution 9-2-09
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A red substance milks its way into Bardstown Kentucky Town Creek just prior to the Bourbon Festival.
This water is the source for Barton Distillery Lake locally know as Tuers Lake. I hope it is not carcinogenic.
My Willett and Heaven Hill Distillery Reviews (Day 7.4)
For specifics on the Willett Distillery Tour and Tasting and the Heaven Hill Whiskey Connoisseurs Tasting and how to plan your visit go to:
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There you'll find more details including maps, website links, ideas of perks from each distillery I visited, extra insights and my takeaways.
William HeavenHill by the way, not William Henry Hill ;) And I was experimenting with the higher quality camera on my phone, thus the reason my head is being cut off...couldn't see what I was recording.
HOW TO DO A KENTUCKY BOURBON TOUR
In addition to this stop, I visited 17 other distilleries on this trip. Find out more about each by visiting And I'd love for you to subscribe to my channel. This is just the first in a series of video blogs I will be developing as I travel the globe.
And as always, feel free to comment and make suggestions. I look forward to getting to know you and sharing information to help make travel easier and more enjoyable.
Safe travels!
Drew
Bardstown: Most Beautiful Small Town in America | Kentucky Life | KET
Bardstown, Ky was named Most Beautiful Small Town in America in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 Best of the Road competition. Kentucky Life talks to Kim Huston, author of Small Town Sexy, about the iconic streets, shops, cafes, and historic neighborhoods in the Bourbon Capital of the World.
A total of 650 towns were nominated, and Bardstown pulled out all the stops for the offical judges' visit, with people lining the streets for a parade. The Rand McNally team of Nikki and Dusty Green spent a few days seeing the sights and getting to know the people. When the online voting was done, this Nelson County town — home to Barton 1792, Heaven Hill, Jim Beam, and the Ky Bourbon Festival — was the winner.
(Note: Danville was among the towns vying for Most Beautiful, making the final six; and Murray was named Friendliest.)
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