The smell of wood

Wooden Bourbon warehouse Jim Beam property, Kentucky

Warehouse for aging in oak barrels

All wood construction warehouse

Wood construction and wood barrels in Kentucky

The barrels used in bourbon making are built from white oak, Quercus Alba.  The wood that is used in Europe may be from one of two other Quercus species.  The construction of the barrel storage buildings is all wood.  The smell inside the warehouse is the full sense smell of wood.   The storage buildings pictured here are at Clermont, Kentucky.   The operator does not use horse drawn transport to move the barrels around the facility but many of the methods employed here are from at least one hundred years ago. The wood barrels are put into and removed from all wood buildings.  It is very much a place of forest products.