Kentuckians On Suicide Watch

A Jim Beam warehouse filled with about 45,000 bourbon barrels in Woodford County remained on fire midday Wednesday, and bourbon runoff has gone into a nearby creek and the Kentucky River.Two barrel warehouses at the Jim Beam facility on McCracken Pike near the Franklin County line caught fire about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Drew Chandler, Woodford County Emergency Management director. (Tweet/Video) One standard bourbon barrel usually holds about 53 gallons of bourbon that eventually turns into around 150 to 200 750 milliliter bottles. If all the barrels held bourbon, that would be a loss of at least 6 million bottles.

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