​​Time-honored methods meet innovative techniques

Crafting an award-winning portfolio of American Whiskeys is all about balancing time-honored methods with innovative techniques. The truth is, the basic steps for making Bourbon haven’t really changed tat much since we started in 1935. But producing enough whiskey to fill our current 1.5 million barrels while maintaining consistent flavor profiles requires care, skill, and expertise at every step of the process.

Heaven Hill Distillery’s latest video takes consumers behind the scenes and shows how HHD distills, selects, and ages its Bourbons, ryes, and other American Whiskeys. This is a special opportunity for consumers to get an exclusive peak inside the Bernheim distillery and finishing operations in Bardstown, which aren’t open to the public, as well as the rickhouses. Click below to view the full video:​

How quality barrels help produce carefully crafted whiskey​

Heaven Hill Distillery fills more than 1,000 barrels of whiskey every day. To maintain the level of quality we require, we depend on long-standing partnerships with the cooperages who make those barrels. It’s essential that each and every barrel we use is built to the same specifications so we can produce consistent flavor profiles across each of our whiskeys.

To help consumers better understand exactly how these craftspeople turn raw wood into finished barrels, HHD visited the cooperage to capture the process. You can learn more about the process and what we learned here on the HHD website.​