Tragedy in Versailles
45,000 barrels. That's a lot of bourbon. And it's all gone, thanks to a lightning strike and resulting fire at a Jim Beam storage warehouse in Versailles, Kentucky last week. For the curious among you, one bourbon barrel can hold up to 200 bottles of whiskey. So that's--theoretically--9 million fewer bottles of Jim Beam available to future consumers. Thankfully for bourbon fans, the loss only represents roughly 1 percent of Beam's overall stock--a blip on the radar. Jim Beam
