Maker's Mark

Here are pics and videos from our visit to the Maker's Mark Distillery.  There are three video's two toward the end show the bottling and the hand dipping of the signature wax.

When you first arrive you come to the welcome center and there is the old Fire House.

Inside the Welcome Center there are these photo's hanging on the wall that talk.  They were pretty cool and went off randomly making them hard to video.

The Bridge across Whiskey Creek.

Whiskey Creek is one of the reasons that Maker's Mark is located where it is.  It's all because of the water that comes out of the spring lake is iron free.

Here is the "Quart House" the oldest standing 

liqueur store in America.  It is called the Quart House

because in the old days folks would ride up and get 

their quart jars filled with whiskey.

The house on the left is the owners home and originally was a barn.  Below is one of the original barrel houses still in use today.

The entrance to the distillery.  Very hot in there, but, very cool at the same time.

The Brass Stills.  These were awesome and the pictures don't do them justice.

And a sample rite out of the still.

90,00 Gallons of fermenting corn, red winter wheat, hops and yeast that I'm looking at.

Here are some limited edition charity bottles.  Every year Maker's Mark produces bottles that all the profits go to a charity.

My pictures of the inside of the Barrel House did not come out.

 

Below is the filling line.   Watch the video and you can see the bottles being washed out. 

They use one shot of the product to wash out any possible debries from the bottles

Filling the bottles

Gluing on the lables

Here the workers hand dip every bottle in the red wax that is iconic to the Maker's Mark whiskey.

The Tasting Room (which is only 4 months old)

From left to right is the white which is right out of the still and can only be purchased at the distillery.  Next is the Maker's Mark then there is the Makers Mark over-aged.  Maker's Mark is not aged by time but by taste and only bottled after the brew master and tasters give it a go.  Sometimes it over ages and cannot be sold.  The last one is the Maker's Mark 46.

Some tobacco farms just outside the distillery.