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Certainly one of the most beautiful restorations.
The original Willett distillery probably never looked this good
.
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Drew Kulsveen guides our group for the first half of the tour, after which he
and Hunter Chavanne will trade groups. Somehow, they managed to get
another bus load into the mix, and they still pulled it off.

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Cooked mash is being added to the fermenting tanks

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Drew demonstrates how the wash is stirred and aerated by hand

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It's not often that one gets a chance to taste a 135-proof
sample of fine whiskey coming off the still, while watching
fresh mash being readied for its own distillation.


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Brand new charred oak barrels await filling

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This is the very first barrel of sour mash bourbon
whiskey distilled here since around 1973.
It was filled on January 27th, 2012

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This barrel was filled on February 29th, 2012.
That's leap year day. Does that mean it will need to age
for 16 years before it can be called a 4-year-old whiskey?

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And, of course, the inevitable gift shop, where visitors have the
opportunity to purchase bottles of 25-year-old bourbon that can
only be acquired here.

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