Statement from Brown-Forman corporate communications:
Overnight, there was a partial collapse of a Jack Daniel Distillery barrel house located in Lynchburg, TN. No individuals were inside the barrel house at the time and there were no injuries to any employees.
We are working to conduct a full assessment of the damage at this time, but believe no more than 15% of the barrels inside the house were impacted. All affected whiskey has been contained and we are working with all appropriate government agencies as we remediate this incident.
This structure, known as barrel house 2-15, was built in the late 1960s and had the capacity to hold approximately 19,000 barrels of maturing Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey.
Jack Daniel Distillery operations and tours are running as normal.
