Josh: There's a baby bee that just landed on the back of my camera.
Nice. Do you want to see the baby bee?
Hey good morning everyone! So today we are going to be going to two
different distilleries. We had so much fun at Woodford Reserve yesterday we
decided we're going to do two more, so our first stop is right here at
Wild Turkey Distillery. They, yup, gobble gobble - they have they do a bourbon and whiskey
like the last place, so we're going to check that out. Today is not going to be as
nice of a day - it will rain - but later on. So we are transitioning from an Airbnb
where we stayed the last few nights, and we're going be going camping, so of
course in our transition, it is going to rain. So hopefully we'll have some time
to set up in...when it's dry. So it's supposed to be fine this morning and
this afternoon it's going start raining until about 5:00, and then it will be fine
for the rest of the evening and then rain overnight. So hopefully we'll be able to
set up camp no problem, but we'll worry about that later. For now let's get
you on this tour.
Wild Turkey distillery is located in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky,USA.
It is situated along the American Whisky Trail and the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.
The first bottle of Wild Turkey was produced in 1942.
In the year 2000, a fire destroyed a 7 story aging warehouse causing 20% of the whisky to spill into the neighboring river. Wild Turkey supplied over $250,000 toward the clean up. Distilling began again in 2011.
Guide: We only have two recipes here - one for bourbon and one for Rye Whisky.
We use a number two yellow dent corn - number two is the size, yellow is the color, and dent because it has a dent in the kernel.
It is sweeter than field corn but not as sweet as the sweet corn you would eat.
Then we have our Rye. Rye is spicy. So we have a high Rye recipe here. That's what gives
Wild Turkey that spicy, bold flavor, that it's known for because we put a lot of Rye
in our bourbon. Our Rye comes from northern Germany - that's the best place in the
world to get Rye - The next one is barley. Malted barley. Barley comes from the
Dakotas, so in order to get barley - it's not meant for flavor, it's only meant for it's enzyme.
In order to get an enzyme out of barley, we have to put malt in. That's what helps us make it into liquor.
We have a proprietary strain of yeast that we have had alive
and been using to make bourbon since at least 1954. For that reason we keep it in
a petri dish on the west coast, on the east coast, and in local refrigerators somewhere here in Lawrenceburg
(and one in Mercer country as well). In case something were
to happen we want to be able to make sure that Wild Turkey bourbon taste the
same every time, every time we make it, the same way it's tasted for the last 64 years.
You get a tasting with your tour/
Hmmm, what will this taste like?
Spicy!
Oh boy, here we go again!
Phew.
We ended up getting a bottle of this.
Alright, so we just finished up the tour and it was a lot of fun! It was
really good. A little bit shorter than the last one, but it was very...it was very
good. So just to give you a little bit of history of why it's called "Wild Turkey"
we read one of the...within the visitors center they have
like a historical map thing that you follow along, anyway, I guess there was a
guy that worked at one of the local distilleries and the this local
distillery at the time was known to make some of the best bourbon in pretty much
of the whole world. But he thought that he could do it a little bit different,
and make it a little bit better. So what he did is - and because he wasn't allowed to
do it - so what he did is after hours he secretly came in, worked on his new
recipe, new formula, for making his bourbon better, and over time he finally
figured a way to do it. But because he was told not to do it he couldn't just
bring his proposal to his bosses and stuff like that, so he overheard some of
the top people in the company - they were gonna go on a turkey hunt - and it was far
enough into the woods that they could only bring what they could carry, so of
course some of the things that they brought were their own bourbon from the
facility that they were making it in, and he brought a couple of his own. So after you
know, first a little bit, they drank all the regular bourbon and finally all that
was left was his. So they tried it and they really loved it so they asked him
where he got it. And at that point was the time where he kind of made his deal
that said "look I'll tell you where I got it if you promise to give me credit for
it" so he did and that's where Wild Turkey Distillery came from because they
were actually out on a turkey hunt. So all of our tours we pre-booked online.
So we didn't want to risk showing up and then them not having any space. And I
think a lot of them you actually do have to reserve ahead of time just because
like, for example, in our last tour it was completely booked up, so I think it's if
you're going be doing something like this this is one of those things where
it's always good to reserve ahead of time and you don't have to worry about
it - because you're given a time slot - so for us
this morning we're here for 10 o'clock and then obviously there's a group at what, it's something like 11 or 12 or I think it's either every hour half an hour some
of them some of the more busier places even every 15 minutes so that's why it's
important to, if you have other things you want to do in the day, just go ahead and book it online ahead of time.
So like some other distilleries that we've been to where they say production is kind of
carried out in multiple buildings all across either the state or the or the
country, everything that Wild Turkey makes is
made here on this site. So whenever they had their bottling plants it was all
their bottling plants, or whenever they had their distilleries it was all their
distilleries, so that's one reason why it was so much bigger than the other the
Woodford Reserve that we went to and stuff like that. So yeah! Alright guys! So if you
liked the video let us know by hitting the thumbs up and as always subscribe to
the channel for more videos like this. Make sure to check out the next video
we're going be continuing this kind of trend and we're going to be going to Jim
Beam next, so make sure you stay tuned and watch for that video. Alright guys
see you next time!
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