Tuesday, November 03, 2020
God bless Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — It’s a milestone that bourbon drinkers can toast to. Kentucky bourbon makers stockpiled a modern-era record amount of products aging in warehouses. The Kentucky Distillers' Association says a report shows more than 9.2 million barrels of bourbon are being stored in Kentucky.
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So that warehouse disaster last year was no big deal?
ReplyDeleteNectar of the Gods. Straight from Nefertiti's titties.
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My Dad's cousin moved to Kentucky years ago and got into the horse business. He has sold 3 pieces of land for barrel warehouses. A couple years ago I read bourbon is exploding globally and a large increase in women consuming as well adding to it.
ReplyDeleteOh great, just what we need, more drunk psychochicks.
DeleteThe popularity of bourbon is indeed exploding around the world.
ReplyDeleteThese warehouses are called rickhouses. From the outside, a rickhouse looks like an ordinary multi-story warehouse. But inside, it is one big multi-story rack designed to hold barrels - lots and lots of barrels. Just down the road from me on an old farmstead, one of our larger local distilleries put up 12 brand new rickhouses just this past year. Each one of those will hold 50,000 or more barrels. Think about that. That's over half a million barrels in just one rickhouse farm, and that particular distillery, one of many around here, has several of those farms scattered around the region. A lot of these rickhouses are fairly new, but there are still a lot of them that have been around since the thirties.
They never put the whiskey distilled in any particular year all in one warehouse. Too much chance of losing all of your product for that year in one rickhouse disaster. (...and there have been several, from collapses to fires, in the last 20 years or so.)
Hope it'll be ready for the next installment of what passes for WuHuFlu.
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