(TDB) - A Bourbon warehouse owned by Kentucky distiller Barton 1792 containing around 18,000 barrels has completely collapsed, almost two weeks after half of the building came crashing down.
The untimely incident occurred yesterday on 4 July at around 2:20pm local time during American Independence Day, with the barrels once housed in the seven story warehouse now heaped in a massive pile. Local Louisville news station WLKY posted overhead footage of the site from its helicopter.

Half of the warehouse, which was built in the 1940s, collapsed on 22 June with an estimated 9,000 barrels affected. Despite efforts taken to contain the spill, alcohol flowed from the site for around 3 hours, with Bourbon making its way into the local waterways and contributing to the death of around 800 fish.
In a statement released yesterday, Amy Preske, a spokesperson for parent company Sazerac said that following the first spill, the distillery was prepared with equipment should the rest of the structure become unstable.