Who Makes Bulleit Bourbon?

[cowdery]

But they are using the whiskey warehouses over there for their current bourbons, right? If I read all this correctly, they are buying white dog from Four Roses and whoever else, putting it in barrels, and storing it at S-W.

Yes, that's it exactly, which apparently the sofware would like me to say in more words.

[barturtle]

They can take all the time they want getting S-W up and running again, then, without worrying about how long it will be before they can sell whiskey they make. They can just start buying less, or barreling more, and in four years they can start selling I.W. Harper and Bulliet with some of their own juice in it.

Actually, not likely. They would likely never match the flavor profile of the white dog made at other places. So they would have to keep buying from their sources to maintain those products as they are. Sure transitions do happen, but they, with few exceptions, only seem to happen often when a brand is sold.

[ThomasH]

When I came through Louisville in April on the way to the sampler, I went by SW and there was a MM semi trailer parked outside one of the warehouses, which by the way looked like it had been covered in vertical metal siding of some sort. I definitely think MM is still storing barrels there!

Thomas

[cowdery]

Those are steel clad warehouses. The structure of the building is the wooden rick system. The exterior walls are just a thin skin of corrugated steel panels, arranged vertically. That's how they've always been, since they were built in 1935. There is no universal warehouse design, but that's a common one, although sometimes it's aluminum, rather than steel, and sometimes the panels are arranged horizontally.

[BourbonJoe]

When I came through Louisville in April on the way to the sampler, I went by SW and there was a MM semi trailer parked outside one of the warehouses, which by the way looked like it had been covered in vertical metal siding of some sort. I definitely think MM is still storing barrels there!

Thomas

Tom

Last year, we had a tour of SW by Mike Veach. We went into Warehouse No.4 and, sure enough, it was almost entirely filled with Makers Mark barrels.

Joe :usflag:

[mozilla]

I can confirm that barrels of Barton bourbon are stored there as well.

[cowdery]

I can confirm that barrels of Barton bourbon are stored there as well.

I wonder if those aren't barrels that Diageo owns. Barton has plenty of warehouse space and doesn't need to rent space from Diageo.