This is from the first collapse.
The second
Posted on 07/04/2018 4:21:23 PM PDT by BBell
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - 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.
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.
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.
In a statement, the company said its employees "worked quickly to contain the spill" Wednesday, with none of the new runoff entering any waterways.
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.
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BArton worked quickly to stop the liquor from entering the creek, but didn’t NOTIFY the STATE quickly enough, so they will be fined for that.....
Let’s see-—which should I do first?
Stop the flow into the river or creek .......
OR spend wasted time on the phone trying to explain what happened to some bureaucrat???
Decisions, Decisions.......
” why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse”
Would you have been willing to go inside a half collapsed multi story post and beam building and start moving things around for $15 an hour?
Likely OHSA wouldn’t let anyone within 100 feet of the site.
This is from the first collapse.
The second
My guess is Evan Williams 1792 bourbon. It is a decent bourbon.
The Horror, The Horror.
Access.
You have to be able to get to the barrels to remove them.
The first thing that would happen after a partial collapse of a building is a county engineer/building inspector would post the building as ‘danger do not enter. ‘ There would be no way to know if or when the rest of the building might fall on its own.
Until an architect engineer inspected the building and deemed it safe to enter no one would be permitted to work in the building.
If you look at the pictures of the first collapse there was no way to get to one side of the building due to the pile of barrels and collapsed building.
Looks like a lot of those whiskey barrels are still intact. Made of stout hardwood, I’m sure. Let us hope.
It is Bourbon wiskey
It has to be made in new charred oak cask.
The strength of oak barrels in legendary.
Freaking TRAGEDY!
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Apparently some of those old timbers gave out from age. Just a guess.
Same with Deathwatch Beetles.
Can any of that be recovered for later use?
My thoughts .... what were they thinking or more properly, not thinking?
Can any of that be recovered for later use?
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The whiskey in the barrels that didn’t rupture should still
be good to complete the aging process. Just a guess.
I sense a Lynyrd Skynrd paraphrase. As opposed to registering a complaint about odor.
With that many barrels, it could cause cirrhosis of the river
: )
That is the winner for today, I will go to bed with a smile.....
Awesome well done
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