Is Some Bulleit Bourbon Distilled in Indiana?

[OscarV]

This is what I mean when I say producers should talk to me.

Here's the official word from Diageo, "Bulleit Bourbon is made – 100% made – in Lawrenceburg Kentucky."

As I've previously reported, sources connected to Kirin have disagreed but now the deal is, they have to go public with their assertion to the contrary. Diageo has the high ground now.

Diageo also categorically denies that there is any LDI bourbon in Bulleit Bourbon.

Truly, I have no reason to doubt them, and this came from an official spokesperson who wouldn't say it without checking, so good for Diageo and thank you.

This is very interesting that Diageo has made a statement about this regardless of what's in Bulleit.

Because as 4R's Jim Rutledge has said,...

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I often talk to people about Bulleit when I am asked, but by contractual agreement with Diageo none of us are allowed to say much. It’s not that any of us grouchy…we just can’t speak in detail about the contractual agreement;

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To me it sounds like Kirin wants no pub on this and Diageo would love everyone to know that Bulliet is 4R but costs less. (Single Barrel that is and that's the most known 4R label).

[tmckenzie]

Am I nuts, or could some of it be made at Dickel, minus the charcoal?

[squire]

It could I suppose but why bother.

[cowdery]

Dickel is the same deal as LDI. You can make bourbon there, you just can't call it Kentucky bourbon.

In the nature of the business, there is probably very little difference between what it costs Diageo to buy new make from Brown-Forman and what it would cost them to make it themselves at Dickel. Plus they may not have sufficient extra capacity at Dickel. Plus Diageo's maturation facility at Stitzel-Weller is a stones throw from Brown-Forman's distillery in Louisville, so very convenient. It's so close they could probably run a pipe between them.