Oct 5, 2026 · 58 min · 18 segments
This week, as we near our 300th episode, we're rewinding back to our 100th episode. Originally released August 1st, 2022. For our 100th episode, we're talking about the awful fire that happened in…
Dan WilburGuestHey, Michael, it's Nikki.
So I just learned about the Dublin Whiskey Fire, where apparently 13 people died, but not from the fire itself, from alcohol poisoning.
I feel like this could just be a tale based on a bad stereotype, but who knows? Maybe it's true.
I want to also state here at the top of the episode, I spelled whiskey with an E in the title, and I know that that's a topic of debate, whether or not there should be an E in whiskey.
For some distilleries, it's a matter of tradition, but the most common distinction here is geographical.
But before we get into that story, it reminded me of a more recent piece of news from here in the U.S., For the Jim Beam Distillery, 4th of July weekend in 2019 was not one to celebrate.
On the evening of July 3rd, a bolt of lightning hit one of their Frankfort, Kentucky warehouses and started an uncontrollable blaze.
Fire units from four different nearby counties responded and the fire was so hot the plastic lights on the fire trucks melted.
They contained it, but they wanted the distilled spirits to burn down because one of the major results of this fire was contaminated runoff.
As the barrels burned, they leaked ethanol into Glen Creek, which then led to the Kentucky River and the larger Ohio River.
Even so, environmental experts found a large fish kill-off in the 62 miles of river where the bourbon runoff traveled.
Hey, Michael, it's Nikki.
So I just learned about the Dublin Whiskey Fire, where apparently 13 people died, but not from the fire itself, from alcohol poisoning.
I feel like this could just be a tale based on a bad stereotype, but who knows? Maybe it's true.
I want to also state here at the top of the episode, I spelled whiskey with an E in the title, and I know that that's a topic of debate, whether or not there should be an E in whiskey.
For some distilleries, it's a matter of tradition, but the most common distinction here is geographical.
But before we get into that story, it reminded me of a more recent piece of news from here in the U.S., For the Jim Beam Distillery, 4th of July weekend in 2019 was not one to celebrate.
On the evening of July 3rd, a bolt of lightning hit one of their Frankfort, Kentucky warehouses and started an uncontrollable blaze.
Fire units from four different nearby counties responded and the fire was so hot the plastic lights on the fire trucks melted.
They contained it, but they wanted the distilled spirits to burn down because one of the major results of this fire was contaminated runoff.
As the barrels burned, they leaked ethanol into Glen Creek, which then led to the Kentucky River and the larger Ohio River.
Even so, environmental experts found a large fish kill-off in the 62 miles of river where the bourbon runoff traveled.
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