Washington June 23 (IANS) About 9 000 stacked bourbon barrels plummeted to the ground at a distillery building in the US state of Kentucky when part of the structure collapsed.
The Barton 1792 Distillery building home of the brand 1792 Bourbon was having a wall repaired. The collapse on Friday brought down half of the structure reports CNN.
A police official said there was no one inside when the roof caved in.
It is unclear whether the bourbon spilled from the containers but a nearby creek was of concern because of the structure s position on a hill.
Representatives from the state s Department for Environmental Protection were dispatched to the scene. But water samples came back clean.
Typically each barrel holds 53 gallons of bourbon and weighs about 550 pounds.

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