Heaven Hill Distillery and How We Entertained Ourselves

I must have taken this out the car window...

I guess I was too lazy to crop the picture to get that black line off of the left side.

Oh well.

Bourbon makes you lazy...
Apparently.

Anyway, this uncropped photo gives you a good idea of the size of those rack houses!
Huge!
Also gives you an idea of the amount of evaporation and "angel's share".
See all that black stuff up the side of the rack house?
That is the mold that forms on the evaporated bourbon.
The air must be full of bourbon.
Maybe just breathing the air makes you lazy...

Heaven Hill was a cool place.

Beautiful tasting room & gift shop.

Interesting display showing the levels of bourbon after aging.

And smells!
The brass horns gave you bourbon smells!

And a really cool "tasting room in a barrel"!

Supposedly the largest barrel around or in the world or universe or maybe just in Kentucky.
Whatever - it was cool!
Plus they had little lights in the bar that lit your tasting glasses from below.

And then what bourbon does to the general public:

Or our trained men.

And us.

It does funny things to us.