Buffalo Trace Distillery fills its eight millionth barrel of bourbon since prohibition
Buffalo Trace Distillery made history by filling its eight millionth barrel of bourbon since Prohibition. The eighth millionth barrel comes just four years after the seventh millionth barrel (filled in 2018), due to the $1.2 billion expansion efforts at the distillery over the last several years.
On hand to mark the occasion was Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear, Kentucky Senate Majority Floor Leader, Damon Thayer and Buffalo Trace Distillery officials, including third generation team member Freddie Johnson whose family has been involved in every millionth barrel of the distillery since 1942.
Buffalo Trace’s seventh millionth barrel of bourbon, barreled in April of 2018, has been removed from Warehouse V and put away to continue aging in one of Buffalo Trace’s larger warehouses. After a few more years, it will be ready to bottle and will be offered to various nonprofit organisations for fundraising efforts. Information about how to apply for a bottle will be announced at that time.
