Make that 44,998 barrels. I got in early and accounted for two. Ah, yes! Yes indeed!
Posted on 07/03/2019 7:03:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two barrel warehouses at a Jim Beam aging facility burned for hours overnight in Kentucky.
WKYT reports the facility caught fire at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. One warehouse caught fire, which then spread to a second warehouse.
Roughly 45,000 barrels of bourbon were in one of the burning warehouses.
Officials said it’s possible the fire was caused by a lightning strike.
VERSAILLES, Ky. (WKYT) - Multiple crews are on the scene of a major fire at a bourbon warehouse facility. Massive fire at a Jim Beam warehouse facility in Woodford County
Woodford County Emergency Management Director Drew Chandler tells WKYT two barrel warehouses at a Jim Beam aging facility caught fire around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The facility is on McCracken Pike, near the Franklin County line.
Chandler says one warehouse initially caught fire with flames spreading to the second structure.
Crews were able to put out the flames in the second warehouse. Flames were still visible in the first warehouse five hours after the fire started.
Chandler says approximately 45,000 barrels of bourbon were in the warehouse that was still burning. He speculated crews could be on scene until late Wednesday night.
Multiple agencies are working to put the fire out. Bluegrass Emergency Response Team out of Lexington is bringing foam to the scene.
Chandler also said it's possible the fire was caused by a lightning strike, but that has not been confirmed.
A local business is bringing sand to control runoff into Glenns Creek.
McCracken Pike is shut down while crews actively fight the fire.
This story is developing and will be updated.
Wow. These images from the fire at the Jim Beam aging facility are unbelievable. Emergency management officials estimate 45,000 barrels of bourbon were in the rickhouse. Read more here from @WKYT: https://t.co/jYq66lZxjK pic.twitter.com/JQ9hTewYcj — Garrett Wymer (@GarrettWKYT) July 3, 2019
I’m a Maker’s Mark Ambassador. I ain’t saying nothing until I talk to a lawyer.
Thanks for posting that gif. I live in John Belushi’s home town, were he went to high school and college. I would guess 90% of the people living here under 30 have never even heard of him.
No makeup. Wow, that is seriously hard to look at. If she put on 200 lbs she could be Rosie’s double.
NOOOOoooooo!!!!! Hic....
It’s being allowed to run off into a nearby creek..............time for a swim!................
Health issues and requisite nasty medicine has prevented me from having more than perhaps a single beer. In my ‘Ute’, I was a purveyor of Jack Daniels... a few decades later I was asked why are you drinking that rotgut? I was turned onto Jim Beam. Very smooth compared to Jack. A decade ago I was told Makers Mark makes Jimmy Beam seem like crap. But by then I had stopped drinking. Shame. I also heard that Pappy Van Winkle is the very best but difficult to get and very expensive. Good thing I can’t drink. I can’t keep up with the Bourbon wars.
Fireman seen rushing in with timbers falling around them to retrieve as many bottles and barrels as they can......
The Old Dun Cow
Some friends and I
in a pulic house
were playing dominos one night
Into the room the barman came
his face a ghastly white
What’s up says Brown
Have you seen a ghost
Have you seen your Aunt Myriah
“Oh my Aunt Myriah be buggered!” says he
“The bloody pub’s on fire!”
“On Fire!” Says Brown
“What a bit of Luck.
Everybody follow me.
Into the cellar if the fire’s not there
we’ll have a rare old spree!”
So we all went down after good old Brown
the booze we could not miss
And we weren’t there 5 minutes or more
when we were all half pissed
CHORUS
And there was Brown, upside down
Lappin’ up the whiskey on the floor
Booze Booze the firemen cried
as they came knockin’ at the door
Don’t let them in till it’s all mopped up
Somebody shouted “McIntyre”
And we all got blue blind
paralytic drunk
When the Old Dun Cow caught fire
Then Smith went over
to the port wine tub
gave it a few hard knocks
started taken’ off his pantaloons
likewise his shoes and socks
“Hold on!” Says Brown
“You can’t do that!
We can’t have that in here!
Don’t go washin’ your trotters
in the port wine tub
when we’ve got all this lite beer”
CHORUS
And then there came an awful crash
half the roof gave way
We were drowned in the fireman’s hose
But still we were going to stay
So we got some tacks
and our old wet slacks
and nailed ourselves inside
And we sat there swallyin’
pints of stout
till we were bleary eyed!
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That’s a good ‘un
I know one of us’d hit it
From rickety rickhouse to rickshaw
Here, as well. I only imbibe during the holidays, just sparingly. (My wife told me that dark liquor makes me a mean drunk, so I all but quit it. Still love it.) My usual Christmas Eve drink at dinner is a double, on the rocks. My original ambassador welcome kit came fifteen years ago; it included a sheaf of Maker’s Mark Ambassador cards embossed with my name, and several other trinkets. I got to custom name the barrel, and when it was ready I received a ‘birth announcement’ in the mail with a Willy Wonka golden ticket to go up to the distillery and hand-dip two bottles out of the barrel, as well as the opportunity to buy the barrel head at a discount. In the interim, they send you all sorts of doo-dads at Christmas, like mufflers and scarves for your bottles, sprigs of mistletoe to hang around the neck, all that trifle. All my old documentation got destroyed i a fire, so I re-registered, and barrel 806691 should be ready by 08/20. This time, I’m scheduling a tour of the Loretto distillery to coincide with actually getting to barrel-dip my own. And I’m taking the barrel head home with me.
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