A standard bourbon barrel holds about 53 gallons. About 3 gallons of bourbon are immediately absorbed into the wood, and approximately 3 percent is lost to evaporation each year of aging – the so-called “angel’s share.”
Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown is home to the world’s largest bourbon barrel, above. It’s 15 feet tall, approximately 10 feet in diameter and has a theoretic capacity of 8,000 gallons. Here’s the really fun part: It was built by local high school students as a…
In 2012, Kentucky distilleries filled one million barrels with bourbon (1,007,703, to be precise) – the first time they’ve hit that milestone since 1973. That brought total inventory to 4.9 million barrels, which means there are more barrels of bourbon aging in the Bluegrass than there…
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