Famous bourbon distillery suffers 'substanial' damage from flooding in Kentucky's capital
The Buffalo Trace Distillery is located along the banks of the Kentucky River in Frankfort. The river crested Monday at 48.2 feet, the second highest in Frankfort's history by less than an inch.
Was there in February and we did the Colonel e.h Taylor tour and they took you down through the old EH Taylor building and on the wall it had Mark's of all the floods throughout the years So this is not something new.
ReplyDeleteThe whiskey will be fine. Keep calm and carry on (neat please).
ReplyDeleteBlanton's as well. Thank goodness for an inventory position.
ReplyDeleteI kinda lean towards Irish whiskey myself.
ReplyDeleteThought you were a scotch man? Back in my professional days I always had two or three bottles of Buffalo Trace handy in a gun safe since it was empty after the yachting accident.
DeleteI kinda have a weakness for Bushmills, so I either keep it damn near under lock and key, or just don't get it very often. Otherwise, I'd probably put a baby-bottle nipple on it and tilt back in the fetal position for the weekend.
DeleteEnough with the weather modification already.
ReplyDeleteHate to see that, some dang expensive stuff though. Now the price will skyrocket!
ReplyDeleteI hope they recover quickly and get their business back on line.
ReplyDeleteBuff is pretty good whiskey but I'm glad I drink Woodford Reserve.
Isn't that where Pappy Van Winkles comes from?
ReplyDeleteA Greek Tragedy, if you ask me
ReplyDeleteHope most of the barrels in the rickhouses survive . Otherwise my collection just got a lot harder to drink.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the barrels didn't wash away, they'll be fine. They won't be in water long enough the nasty river water to soak through to the whiskey inside. The wood will dry out from the outside-in, and all will be well. They can market it as "Kentucky Flood Batch" and recoup their losses down the road.
ReplyDeleteThat Pappy gonna be real expensive for a long time. Watch “Heist” on Netflix one of the trilogy is about Pappygate, good stuff.
ReplyDeleteThey'll be Fiiine. All they need to do is fire up a
ReplyDeleteGo Fund Me.. The money will come rolling in.
Eagle Rare is their best with the Benchmark series a close 2nd. I am not a big fan of their other stuff. Jeff C in NC
ReplyDeleteI too love Eagle Rare though I will not argue to a young of Blanton's
DeleteHad to give it up some 20 years back. Never got to try BT but I’m better off without any of it. ET in Dixie.
ReplyDeleteIt got bad here in central Ky, Falmouth and Frankfort got it bad
ReplyDeleteExplains the tatse of that swill....
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