Author Topic: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......  (Read 11913 times)

Offline Lannis

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Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
« Reply #30 on: September 05, 2015, 12:50:35 PM »
good thing it wasn't this




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 ....

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Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
« Reply #31 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.
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Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
« Reply #32 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:
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Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
« Reply #33 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
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Re: 800,000 Gallons of Kentucky Bourbon spills into lake and catches fire ......
« Reply #34 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
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