Heaven Hill Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 1935
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Heaven Hill Bernheim is a U.S. based distillery in Louisville, Kentucky. The distillery produces excellent American whisky, such as Kentucky Straight Bourbon and Rye. In addition to the home brand Heaven Hill, other major American whisky brands like Elijah Craig and the Rittenhouse Straight Rye are made at Heaven Hill. Heaven Hill is the second distillery to carry the name, a previous distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, was founded in 1935 shortly after the end of the prohibition. On November 7th 1996 however this original distillery fell victim to a fire that consumed 90,000 barrels of whiskey and gutted the distillery. Heaven Hill is the largest single-Site Bourbon distillery in American, its most recent expansion increased production to 400,000 Barrels a year (~80,000,000 litres). Heaven Hill produces a wide range of American whiskeys, including bourbon, rye, and corn whiskey. The distillery is perhaps best known for its Evan Williams bourbon, which is named after Kentucky's first commercial distiller. The distillery operates several different stills, including column stills and pot stills, which are used to produce different types of whiskey. The whiskey is then aged in charred oak barrels in the distillery's rickhouses, which are located throughout the state of Kentucky.
