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- Go to Bourbon On The Rocks...Distillary Collapse 20 Miles From My Home.
There used to be a distillery about a mile from our farm.
There used to be a distillery about a mile from our farm. In the Bourbon industry, you can only use a barrel one time. So local farmers, my Dad included, would show up when they started the bottling process and buy the empty Barrels for a buck a piece.
I don't know what the other farmers did. But my Dad would put 5 gallons of boling hot water in the Barrel, plug it, and make me roll the barrels around our yard. I would invite friends over and make up a barrel rolling game out of it......
After a couple of hours, my friends would go home and my Dad would unplug the barrels and get 5 gallons of bourbon that was soaked into the wood of the barrels.
Then he would cut the barrels in half and sell them as huge flower pots for $3.00 each.
Ahhh the free enterprise system in full swing!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on June 29, 2018 at 1:13 PM
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I never heard a word about this....but i ain't much of a drinker.
posted by
Kabu
on June 29, 2018 at 12:03 PM
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That is an incredible scene. Talk about a mess, indeed.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on June 29, 2018 at 11:35 AM
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Good thinking fish probably died happy.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 29, 2018 at 11:35 AM
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Corbin Dallas
Theformer Burry's cookies warehouse burned to the ground near me a few years ago.
posted by
BC-A
on June 29, 2018 at 11:34 AM
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As far as I know I've never had any bourbon nor any carp. Sounds like maybe Carey Nation went to work in your end of town.
posted by
TAPS.
on June 29, 2018 at 7:20 AM
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