mozilla Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 On my recent trip to Kentucky my first tour was at BT. Was fortunate enough to meet Harlen and Elmer within just a few minutes of each other. The barrels are in Warehouse C, first floor. The tanks are about 90,000 gallons and the two pipes are (big) sweet mash and (little) spent mash to sour the sweet while fermenting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickAtMartinis Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Pretty cool photos. I've never been to a distillery, but I have been to BT's web site where you can connect into the web cams at BT's. Are those barrels being pushed forward to be dumped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweetmeats Posted June 11, 2007 Share Posted June 11, 2007 Meeting Elmer would be the highlight for me. Considering ETL was the first Bourbon I ever had it would be like meeting a God. A whiskey making God! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozilla Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 The whole Hard Hat tour was excellent! Lots of huge machines and equipment that process feed and dry it that were not pictured. I did snap a pic of the room that will be used for the new micro still or something like that(formerly the yeast room). Also got a pic of Harlen on his way through the yard. I'm not sure when those barrels will be dumped. We saw them on the ground floor of bonded warehouse C. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgilbertva Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Seeing those pictures brought back some great memories. My brother and I were at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival last Fall. We had the good fortune to be invited to accompany Harlen on a hard hat tour while he was doing his rounds. There's nothing like seeing from where the nectar of the gods arises.:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggilbertva Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Seeing those pictures brought back some great memories. My brother and I were at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival last Fall. We had the good fortune to be invited to accompany Harlen on a hard hat tour while he was doing his rounds. There's nothing like seeing from where the nectar of the gods arises.:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:Harlen was very gracious and spent alot of time with us; close to an hour and a half....in fact, if memory serves, we were late getting to Wild Turkey where we were supposed to meet up with Jimmy Russell. Fortunately, he was late also. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Repeat that experience many, many times over and you realize how much the distillers value this community. I believe they also genuinely enjoy meeting and spending time with the most enthusiastic fans of their work, but it's also nice to be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schlep Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Took the BT Hard Hat tour today and, as it happened, they were making rye (the last of the two days BT will make rye this distilling season). Total production is estimated at 700 barrels. I forgot to ask how this compares with past production years. Very interesting to taste the difference between the rye and bourbon in the fermenters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynot Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 just did this tour just last week. being my first trip there and first look at a distillery, it was fascinating and better than any of the other tours we did later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozilla Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Took the BT Hard Hat tour today and, as it happened, they were making rye (the last of the two days BT will make rye this distilling season). Total production is estimated at 700 barrels. I forgot to ask how this compares with past production years. Very interesting to taste the difference between the rye and bourbon in the fermenters.It would be interesting to get more facts about their rye numbers. How many of the fermentors were full of rye? Did it taste different than the regular mashbill that they make, assuming you have tasted it, either in the fermentors or stills? Last time I was there, I noticed a large pool of corn oil floating on the fermentors. I thought it strange how much oil was present. I have not noticed this at any other distillery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozilla Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 just did this tour just last week. being my first trip there and first look at a distillery, it was fascinating and better than any of the other tours we did later on.Which distilleries did you make it to that trip? Did you get the hard hat tour or regular tour at BT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdery Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 They only make rye for a couple of days each season. If they ran rye four days total last year, maybe they did five this year. It's still not very much. Everybody else the same way, a couple of days each season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callmeox Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 The hard hat tour is awesome. The tour guides were really good and the facility was really hopping. Today they were bottling ER17 and a Japanese bottling of Blantons (complete with rice paper label) in the Blanton's Bottling Hall. I'll post pics tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callmeox Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 BT tour pixI'll try to label them later when I have a chancehttp://picasaweb.google.com/callmeox/BuffaloTraceTour# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickert Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 We just got back from the BT hard hat tour and had a blast. Even my wife who is not a bourbon drinker at all really enjoyed it. Here are some pictures:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=851901&l=19272&id=504187490 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Reserve Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 One of my goals is to take the BT hard hat tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickert Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Whoops, I posted the link to a single image rather than to a whole album. There should be 40 something pictures.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37483&l=b0c7f&id=504187490 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barturtle Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Whoops, I posted the link to a single image rather than to a whole album. There should be 40 something pictures.http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37483&l=b0c7f&id=504187490Okay...in the pic of the display case, what is the flat looking bottle on the shelf with the Blanton's.I wish they would stop messing with this case...they keep removing non-current bottlings...there used to be some really cool bottlings in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickert Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 Okay...in the pic of the display case, what is the flat looking bottle on the shelf with the Blanton's.I wish they would stop messing with this case...they keep removing non-current bottlings...there used to be some really cool bottlings in there.That is Old Charter Proprietor's Reserve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barturtle Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 That is Old Charter Proprietor's Reserve.Okay, I can see how that could be...just a strange reflection in the glass, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozilla Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 That is the blended OC. Not the 13yr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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