cowdery Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Nearly 6,400 gallons of 180 proof ethyl alcohol spilled from the back of a building at Heaven Hill in Bardstown on Saturday afternoon, triggering a hazardous materials response from Bardstown Fire Department and state and federal environmental regulators. More here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanSheen Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Wow. One valve and there you go. Somebody's gonna get canned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Some pickled perch in that lake....was there a fish kill?Water fowl may be flying off course too. Drunk ducks....flying into trees...what a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourbon Boiler Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Just trying to get the fish in on the Prohibition Day celebration I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepcycle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 The Fire Chief is a Mattingly. What's the chance of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted December 6, 2011 Author Share Posted December 6, 2011 Our friend Bettye Jo once got a bourbon bath because of an errant valve. They make so many different things there and have so many different tanks and bottling lines and such, that the way they direct the liquid to where it needs to go is very complicated. Sometimes mistakes are made.But I don't doubt that some person or persons is in big trouble because of it.One local account said at least some of it got into the creek. Others said it did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasH Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Lucky ducks (and fish too)!Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted December 10, 2011 Author Share Posted December 10, 2011 The ducks can easily get away from it but it's not so good for the fish. Hundreds of thousands of fish in the Kentucky River were killed when Wild Turkey had its big spill a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dramiel McHinson Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 If all of the valving was automated they could blame it on the computer. I could help them build a net centric smart sensor array that would meter the valves based on the the concentration of vapors detected. If one sensor went off line due to inhaling too much, the sensors would pole each other to determine a volunteer to take over the duties of the now offline sensor. If there was an uncontrolled shutdown of the system a shock collar would alert the appropriate management official and dial the EPA. Of course, this might just ruin the artisan image of whiskey making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.B. Babington Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Yep, I remember when 1400 gallons of WT got loose in the river above Frankfort's water intake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted December 13, 2011 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 I think Dramiel meant 'poll,' not 'pole,' although the image of sensors buggering each other is fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Dog Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 As the old songs say, "If the river was Whiskey, and I was a diving duck, I'd dive to the bottom, and never come up.":grin: :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dramiel McHinson Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I think Dramiel meant 'poll,' not 'pole,' although the image of sensors buggering each other is fun.Bwaaah haaa haaa! That's proof old people shouldn't own iPads. The auto-correct is an interesting way to say what you never intended. Your interpretation was much more entertaining:slappin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barturtle Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 And today there was a 2,500 gallon spill just around the corner at Brown-Forman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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