ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — Whiskey House of Kentucky announced that its distillery will start operations on July 1, 2024.
The U.S.-based company is a technically advanced producer of custom bourbon and American whiskey.
According to a news release, Whiskey House will invest more than $350 million over the next decade and hire 50 employees by next year, with a goal of doubling the number of employees by 2027.
Whiskey House is located on a 176-acre campus in the T.J. Patterson Elizabethtown Hardin County Industrial Park. It was founded in 2022 by David Mandell, John Hargrove and Daniel Linde.
The release said the company is the "first distillery designed from the ground up to focus solely on large-scale, flexible, contract whiskey production."
“Whiskey House will reshape the contract whiskey market in the United States,” David Mandell, co-founder and CEO, said. “As the bourbon market continues to grow, we see the need for additional distilling capacity and more customer focused solutions. We will provide the highest-quality production, guaranteed capacity, and exceptional customer service for our brand partners.”
Officials said Whiskey House’s property development plan includes 16, 41,500-barrel traditional rickhouses, a 50,000-square-foot palatized warehouse, a spent grain processing facility, a bottling facility, a rail system and access to one of the "highest yielding hydro stratigraphic limestone aquifers in the region."
“Whiskey House sets a high bar for advanced manufacturing in the whiskey industry,” John Hargrove, co-founder, president and COO, said. “We’re making major investments in the technological capabilities of the distillery that will immediately make Whiskey House the most advanced contract whiskey production facility in the United States.”
The company will use artificial intelligence applications to improve overall quality and efficiency. The release said Whiskey House received a "Microsoft for Startups Founder’s Hub Grant" to speed up the implementation of AI in its manufacturing and distillation process.
“For the first time, our customers will have access to every data-point about their whiskey from start to finish,” Roger Henley, engineering & technology vice president, said. “Not only will this information enable brands to create more innovative products and share more compelling stories about their whiskies, but it will also help optimize their businesses with critical financial, inventory, and quality reports.”
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