In this image provided by the Bardstown, Ky., Fire Department, debris is piled in a heap after a section of a bourbon storage warehouse at the Barton 1792 Distillery collapsed, Friday June 22, 2018, in Bardstown, Ky. Nelson County Emergency Management spokesman Milt Spalding says about 9,000 barrels filled with aging bourbon were affected.Chief Billy Mattingly / AP
Maybe the construction workers who built it in the 1940s were sampling the product.
Tradition can be carried TOO far, you know.
The building was aging right along with the bourbon, and perhaps should have been replaced long ago with a more secure and better engineered storage facility.
Which it shall be anyway.
Another example of misplaced thrift.
Oh, the humanity!
I instantly thought of Bluto’s reaction to the spilled case of Jack Daniels.
Thankfully they were aging in wooden casks. :)