The location of the Bourbon, rum, vodka, and Blue agave spirit distillery is in the old buildings that once housed the Old Crow Distillery in Kentucky’s Woodford County. The fire, which broke out Wednesday, September 30 at 3:30 p.m. at the warehouse complex engulfed multiple buildings, including historic rickhouses and a storage facility.
Three structures were lost but there was no bourbon in any of them.
Officials confirmed no spirits were in the lost buildings and no staff members suffered any injury.
Glenns Creek Distillery confirmed the news on Facebook, accompanied by a video of a burning warehouse and a statement stating: “I don’t know how to write this, so I’ll just say that we are all OK, but lost several buildings. I wanted to make sure you heard it here first. And there was no loss of product or anything but the buildings.”
Due to the incident, the distillery also lost power.
Before multiple crews across the area contained the blaze, dry conditions helped it spread into nearby brush and cross a local road.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire.
Firefighters work to contain a fire at the Glenns Creek Distillery in Woodford County, Kentucky.
Source: WLKY screen capture
“The main thing is we’re trying to keep the area safe so the distillery can get back open,” said Drew Chandler, Woodford County’s emergency manager. When the firefighting operations cease, we’ll get the utility company, the Frankfort Plant Board, to restore the electric, and that distillery can resume any guest activity that they had planned for tomorrow.”
David Meier established Glenns Creek around 2013-2014. He restored the Old Crow Distillery buildings, which had been vacant for 30 years, and brought distilling back to the historic site, with production starting up in May 2015.