Sazerac Expanding Into Tennessee Whiskey With Distillery Purchase

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…The facility includes pot stills built by Louisville’s Vendome Copper & Brass Works, and Sazerac’s statement on the acquisition refers to “modifying the pot stills for the Lincoln County process.” The Lincoln County Process is unique to Tennessee Whiskey in that spirit coming off the stills is filtered through a vat of sugar maple charcoal before being filled into a barrel for maturation. That process was not used in the production of Popcorn Sutton Distilling’s spirits. Brown said there will likely be some reconfiguring of equipment inside the distillery in order to accommodate the vats, as well as making sure the distillery can produce multiple styles of whiskey in the future. There is no specific timetable for launching the whiskey brand to be produced at the distillery, nor has a brand name been selected, and Brown expects those discussions to take up much of 2017. The one definitive fact is that the distillery will no longer be known as the Popcorn Sutton Distillery, and Brown laughed as he said “we’re just going to call it the distillery for now.”…