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Rest of whiskey storage warehouse collapses in Kentucky
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ^ | 7/4/18

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: collapses; distillery; kentucky; warehouse; whiskey
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To: BBell

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.......


21 posted on 07/04/2018 5:06:48 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: catnipman

” 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.


22 posted on 07/04/2018 5:12:08 PM PDT by BethelPatriot
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To: catnipman
Probably too dangerous.

This is from the first collapse.

The second


23 posted on 07/04/2018 5:12:44 PM PDT by BBell (Ich bin Ein Wenig Teekanne ):>()
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To: Skywise

My guess is Evan Williams 1792 bourbon. It is a decent bourbon.


24 posted on 07/04/2018 5:13:10 PM PDT by PhilSC
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To: BBell

The Horror, The Horror.


25 posted on 07/04/2018 5:19:06 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: catnipman
so, wonder why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse as a precaution, but instead just decided to risk their remaining stock?

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.

26 posted on 07/04/2018 5:20:41 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

Looks like a lot of those whiskey barrels are still intact. Made of stout hardwood, I’m sure. Let us hope.


27 posted on 07/04/2018 5:32:42 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: elcid1970
Looks like a lot of those whiskey barrels are still intact. Made of stout hardwood, I’m sure.

It is Bourbon wiskey

It has to be made in new charred oak cask.

The strength of oak barrels in legendary.

28 posted on 07/04/2018 5:39:00 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: catnipman
Place was multi-story and looked like it was built with nothing but 2x4's. I've seen slum buildings in India that looked better constructed. Visited the Glen Livet distillery in Scotland years ago and all their barrels (re-used American Bourbon barrels, by the way) were in a long one story warehouse. No chance of anything like this happening (fire, on the other hand?). You can take the boys out of the Hills, but you can't take the Hillbilly out of the boys.


29 posted on 07/04/2018 5:47:55 PM PDT by katana
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To: katana

Freaking TRAGEDY!

7


30 posted on 07/04/2018 5:49:31 PM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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Apparently some of those old timbers gave out from age. Just a guess.

31 posted on 07/04/2018 5:52:29 PM PDT by deport
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To: ptsal

Same with Deathwatch Beetles.


32 posted on 07/04/2018 5:57:13 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Captain Compassion

Can any of that be recovered for later use?


33 posted on 07/04/2018 6:04:44 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: catnipman

My thoughts .... what were they thinking or more properly, not thinking?


34 posted on 07/04/2018 6:21:58 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: NCC-1701

Can any of that be recovered for later use?

************

The whiskey in the barrels that didn’t rupture should still
be good to complete the aging process. Just a guess.


35 posted on 07/04/2018 6:27:51 PM PDT by deport
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To: nonsporting

I sense a Lynyrd Skynrd paraphrase. As opposed to registering a complaint about odor.


36 posted on 07/04/2018 6:36:39 PM PDT by printhead (I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
If the whiskey spilled into a waterway, they would just have bourbon and branch water.

With that many barrels, it could cause cirrhosis of the river

37 posted on 07/04/2018 7:31:22 PM PDT by SC DOC
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To: SC DOC

: )


38 posted on 07/04/2018 7:59:40 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: SC DOC
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.....

39 posted on 07/04/2018 9:07:58 PM PDT by politicianslie (OPTIMIST-Glass 1/2 full- PESSIMIST 1/2 empty TO ENGINEER, Glass is twice as big as it needs to be!)
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To: SC DOC

Awesome well done


40 posted on 07/04/2018 9:16:00 PM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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