Jim and Mark are selling their pants off.

Posted on February 13, 2007
Filed Under Bourbon, WhiskyBuzz |

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Beam Global Spirits & Wine are spending $70 million to upgrade their plant.
Beam and its parent company, Fortune Brands, also are spending nearly $50 million between the Maker’s Mark distillery a few miles away in Loretto and a bottling and production plant in Frankfort.



Industry leaders say it’s the biggest production boom in the American whiskey industry since just after World War II. And while the Beam projects appear to be the state’s largest at the moment, demand is growing for many of Kentucky’s other bourbon producers.



“The appeal of bourbon worldwide is on a roll,” said Ed O’Daniel, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. “Everybody is gearing up for more production.”



When the Boston expansion is finished, the Booker Noe plant will be able to produce 15 million gallons of whiskey a year, up from the current 10 million. Its mash cookers will eat up corn, the main ingredient in bourbon, at a rate of 75 acres a day.

Source: The Courier Journal.com

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