Inside a Kentucky Rickhouse: A Whiskey Distiller Explains How Barrel Placement Impacts Bourbon

Inside a Kentucky Rickhouse: A Whiskey Distiller Explains How Barrel Placement Impacts Bourbon

Rickhouses are hard to miss on a whiskey distillery property. Sometimes called rackhouses, these tall, imposing buildings stand stoic and proud, almost sentient, as if they know the secrets lurking within the rows and columns of whiskey barrels tucked behind their walls. Old-school rickhouses look like vintage wood barns or stone buildings lifted from centuries past. Modern iterations resemble the love child of an office building and a greenhous…