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Title: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Penderic on September 04, 2015, 03:33:47 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3222526/Streams-whiskey-Lightning-destroys-Jim-Beam-factory-Kentucky-releasing-800-000-gallons-bourbon-lake-catches-fire-struck-Firenado.html

Oh no!  :cry:

The fish in that lake must have been kippered ..... mmmm tastes good!

(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/whisky3kt_zpsb0hshpsq.gif)
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Two Checks on September 04, 2015, 03:37:44 PM
Similar incident happened a few years ago and the bourbon went into a river.
Before that down theroad at the Evan Williams facility a few of the aging barns and IIRC a bottling facility burned.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Lannis on September 04, 2015, 03:50:49 PM
Similar incident happened a few years ago and the bourbon went into a river.
Before that down theroad at the Evan Williams facility a few of the aging barns and IIRC a bottling facility burned.

Yep, I know that lake.

Same place where the man drowned last year.   Took a while, though, because he climbed out three times to pee ....

Lannis
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: oldbike54 on September 04, 2015, 04:03:47 PM
 Carrie , is that you ?

  Dusty
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: CalVin2007 on September 04, 2015, 04:26:08 PM
  The apocalypse is truly upon us.  :cry:  :cry:  :cry:

   Terry
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 04, 2015, 04:37:13 PM
The epitome of alcohol abuse. There should be national a day of mourning.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: beetle on September 04, 2015, 05:00:19 PM
Tee hee! Thank the gods it was only Jim Beam. Nothing important, like Maker's Mark or Jack Daniels.  :evil:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 04, 2015, 05:05:51 PM
Beam is really quite similar to Jack don't you think? Both Sour Mash aren't they?
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: oldbike54 on September 04, 2015, 05:09:53 PM
Beam is really quite similar to Jack don't you think? Both Sour Mash aren't they?

 Oh they are sour and mash , whatever that means . Love the descriptions of whiskey , fruity , smells like roses , very sweet . How the hell can ya tell , it all smells like methanol and dead mice  :grin:

  Dusty
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: beetle on September 04, 2015, 05:32:54 PM
Beam is really quite similar to Jack don't you think? Both Sour Mash aren't they?

Hush your mouth! They couldn't be more different. Beam is like sweetened monkey piss compared to Jack.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: rodekyll on September 04, 2015, 06:32:38 PM
Hush your mouth! They couldn't be more different. Beam is like sweetened monkey piss compared to Jack.

 :1:

Jack lacks sweetening.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: ITSec on September 04, 2015, 06:38:03 PM
You know somebody is going to use this as an excuse to further increase the already inflated cost of bourbon...
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Kev m on September 04, 2015, 06:43:08 PM
 :cry:  :cry:  :cry:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 04, 2015, 09:06:07 PM
Oh they are sour and mash , whatever that means . Love the descriptions of whiskey , fruity , smells like roses , very sweet . How the hell can ya tell , it all smells like methanol and dead mice  :grin:

  Dusty

 Cause that's what goes into it.   
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: ITSec on September 04, 2015, 09:29:32 PM
Oh they are sour and mash , whatever that means . Love the descriptions of whiskey , fruity , smells like roses , very sweet . How the hell can ya tell , it all smells like methanol and dead mice  :grin:

  Dusty

So why do the Scots get so much criticism for using iodine to disinfect the dead mice in theirs? The Irish just substitute peat for charcoal, that's dead simple.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Penderic on September 04, 2015, 09:46:31 PM
The EPA is going to be pissed!  :boozing:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Guzzistajohn on September 04, 2015, 09:54:23 PM
Hush your mouth! They couldn't be more different. Beam is like sweetened monkey piss compared to Jack.

OK if you say so, I'm really more of a Jamison's kinda guy. Or Tullemore Dew.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: oldbike54 on September 04, 2015, 09:57:50 PM
OK if you say so, I'm really more of a Jamison's kinda guy. Or Tullemore Dew.

 What is the ratio of methanol to dead mice in those two ?  :laugh:

  Dusty
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 04, 2015, 11:20:08 PM
  Put me in the Jamesons' camp.  All my life I have tried to avoid drinking anything with methanol in it.  Methanol being wood alchohol,
more poisonous than the dead mice.  I preferred my whisky to have ethanol in it.  Ethanol BTW is also a better fuel for engines too.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: beetle on September 04, 2015, 11:34:28 PM
That would be 'Jameson'. Philistines!
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: ITSec on September 04, 2015, 11:51:11 PM
That would be 'Jameson'. Philistines!

Can someone who claims to be 'eruditer' truly label others as philistines?  :grin:

Besides, Irish whiskey has suffered devastation even worse than the potato blight, with only one firm in the entire country over 40 years old...
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Shorty on September 05, 2015, 12:13:29 AM
Meh, as long as it ain't rum being wasted. THAT would be tragic.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on September 05, 2015, 12:44:43 AM
  If you are trying to be eruditer it should be Jamesons', using the possessive form to describe who owns the Jameson distillary.
 Considering how many on this forum talk about the disc breaks on their bike and a host of other malapropriate ways to describe things
 you really are picky about a mis typed name.
 BTW eruditer is one of those words that really is not even a word.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: beetle on September 05, 2015, 02:30:08 AM
 
Can someone who claims to be 'eruditer' truly label others as philistines?  :grin:


BTW eruditer is one of those words that really is not even a word.


Clearly the irony isn't lost to your two towering intellects.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: rodekyll on September 05, 2015, 02:35:05 AM
Irony magnates.  I like that.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Kev m on September 05, 2015, 06:04:57 AM
Meh, as long as it ain't rum being wasted. THAT would be tragic.

 :thumb: :boozing: :thumb:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: malik on September 05, 2015, 08:50:35 AM
Oh right, the man erudes irons.

(Sorry about that)
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Lannis on September 05, 2015, 09:19:52 AM
What is the ratio of methanol to dead mice in those two ?  :laugh:

  Dusty

The real question is, what kind of whiskey maker keeps whiskey in 800,000 gallon vats?   The stuff is SUPPOSED to be stored in small casks, with all this lovely oak and charred wood interiors and lovingly handled about 60 gallons at a time, not processed in tanker lots like crude oil at a Texas refinery.

No wonder the stuff tastes like it does ..... their secret is out now .....

Lannis
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: oldbike54 on September 05, 2015, 10:28:50 AM
The real question is, what kind of whiskey maker keeps whiskey in 800,000 gallon vats?   The stuff is SUPPOSED to be stored in small casks, with all this lovely oak and charred wood interiors and lovingly handled about 60 gallons at a time, not processed in tanker lots like crude oil at a Texas refinery.

No wonder the stuff tastes like it does ..... their secret is out now .....

Lannis

 Sorta tastes like crude oil  :shocked: In fact , light sweet crude is about as an accurate description as the whiskey makers employ to describe the "wonderfullness" of cheap ass whiskey with a fancy label  :laugh: Heck , our local Guzzi rider's twice filtered Okie lightening ,hand delivered to the Okie camp out is WAY better than any commercial stuff . Just ask the young fella that stepped off the bluff at Talihina a few years ago after a couple of sips  :grin: He just kinda laughed after going whoomp .

  Dusty
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: zedXmick on September 05, 2015, 12:49:27 PM
good thing it wasn't this


(http://www.topshelfliquor.co.nz/user/images/68.jpg?t=1308071713)
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Lannis on September 05, 2015, 12:50:35 PM
good thing it wasn't this


(http://www.topshelfliquor.co.nz/user/images/68.jpg?t=1308071713)

I don't know anything about whiskey but it seems to me that someone was passing that around a campfire more than once, and it was being touted as being pretty smooth ....

Lannis
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: drw916 on September 05, 2015, 01:01:40 PM
Landis, I think all the whiskey is stored in oak barrels. My company makes the tooling that makes the barrels and I know some of the cooperages are making up to 800 barrels a shift.  My understanding is when one barrel goes, they all follow quickly, hence the whole warehouse being destroyed.  Not the first time this has happened.
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Muzz on September 05, 2015, 02:57:01 PM
The EPA is going to be pissed!  :boozing:

The fish were by the sounds of it. :grin:

Actually, it did say the fish died,  what it does NOT say it took four undertakers six hours just to get the grin off one fish's face! :wink:
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: Rough Edge racing on September 05, 2015, 03:26:30 PM
 Whiskey is foul stuff best reserved for desperate situations like hearing of bad news .....I found JB to be just that, foul....The solution to pollution is dilution...dump it in the river...Then have a shot of good Scotch or Irish
Title: Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
Post by: drw916 on September 05, 2015, 06:40:39 PM
Rarely known fact.  Scotch is aged in used bourbon barrels.  The inside of the barrel is scrapped to get to clean wood.  This is one of the reasons Scotch is aged longer than whiskey and bourbon.  Takes longer for the process