The team behind Bardstown Bourbon Company will open a distillery focusing solely on large-scale contract whiskey production, according to a Thursday announcement. Whiskey House of Kentucky is set to be the first property of its kind in the area, and will begin operations on July 1, 2024.
Founded in 2022 by David Mandell, John Hargrove, and Daniel Linde, Whiskey House will be located on 176 acres in the T.J. Patterson Industrial Park in Elizabethtown, Ky., where the state-of-the-art facility is currently being constructed from the ground up. According to a press release, the company will invest over $350 million into the project over the next decade, planning to employ approximately 50 people in 2024 and expand to over 100 employees by 2027. The distillery will not house any brand of its own, and will operate purely as a custom whiskey production facility and provide distillation and barrel aging services with competitive pricing.
