FRANKFORT, Franklin County, Ky (Feb. 9, 2023) – Whiskey making can be at an all-time excessive at Buffalo Hint Distillery now that its new nonetheless home has formally been commissioned. The brand new nonetheless stands 40 toes tall and may produce 60,000 gallons a day. It’s a duplicate of Buffalo Hint’s current nonetheless, permitting the Distillery to double manufacturing on fan favorites reminiscent of Buffalo Hint, Eagle Uncommon, Weller, Blanton’s, E.H. Taylor Jr., and the remainder of the whiskies in its portfolio.
“We’re actually trying ahead to beginning up our new nonetheless so we are able to make extra bourbon whiskey for our followers,” stated Harlen Wheatley, grasp distiller. “The brand new stillhouse is adjoining to the prevailing stillhouse. We put a variety of work into matching our current nonetheless to make sure the whiskey we produce stays constant. We can be in full manufacturing with each stills within the coming days.”
Followers will be capable to see the brand new stillhouse up shut after they take Buffalo Hint’s new Exhausting Hat tour, expanded with a brand new tour route and new websites. The Exhausting Hat tour has all the time been a “should see” when visiting Buffalo Hint, however as a result of Distillery’s on-going building of the nonetheless home and different key parts of the tour, it has been unavailable since 2019. Now friends is not going to solely get to see the brand new nonetheless home, however a few of Buffalo Hint’s different additions as a part of its $1.2 billion enlargement, together with its new awe-inspiring cookers, which span three flooring at 22 toes tall, peek contained in the Distillery’s 93,000 gallon fermenters, and discover the brand new dry home, which may produce 12,000 kilos of dried grain per hour. The brand new Exhausting Hat tour will final roughly 90 minutes and features a tasting after the tour. There is no such thing as a cost for the tour or tasting.
Buffalo Hint’s Hint Tour, lengthy the stalwart of bourbon tour choices, has additionally been expanded, and can embrace extra perception into the bourbon course of and manufacturing by means of a mixture of expertise and new tour stops within the barrel filling and dumping areas. The Hint Tour and Exhausting Hat Tour be a part of Buffalo Hint’s Previous Taylor Tour. All excursions and tastings are complimentary and begin and finish in Buffalo Hint’s Customer Heart, which was expanded in 2020 and now encompasses 33,000 sq. toes whole, which has turn out to be useful as Buffalo Hint welcomed 470,507 friends in 2022 to its Distillery!