The people at Buffalo Trace knew flooding was on the way, but this was way more than they expected.

The water covered the visitors parking lot last night, but this morning the water receded.

People from the distillery talk today about how they handled the crisis.

As many of you know, in our 200 plus year history.

We have lived through a few floods.

This past week has been the latest and one of the most severe that we've seen.

First, ahead of the flood.

We have an extensive plan that includes moving all the barrels on the lower floors to the upper floors across the distillery.

The total extent of the damage is still being determined, but so far includes many of our buildings on campus, from production buildings to Bourbon, Pompei to the still House.

The guest experience buildings such as the visitor center.

The good news is the flood water has completely receded out of Buffalo Trace grain into granting us access to the entire campus, which allows us to implement our normal flood recovery plans.

We have hundreds of trade experts, professionals on site at the distillery supporting our cleanup, restoration and infrastructure remediation.

Our distribution center and main bottling operation did not take on flood waters and thus distribution began today.

We actually shipped out this morning.

First load.

The distillery team is working toward resuming bottling operations as early as next week.

Teams are working diligently to restore power and network issues at our distillery.

The Visitor Experience team is looking forward to welcoming guests again soon in a modified capacity.

As of now, the distillery will be closed to visitors through Sunday, April 13th.

In the meantime, teams are working diligently to reopen the visitor center in a modified capacity as soon as possible.

As we bring buildings and equipment back into service, our teams are also ensuring that there is no compromise to air quality.

Inspections of barrels began yesterday and will and will be ongoing until any effective barrels have been appropriately assessed.

And this is a very involved process, including both barrel inspection as well as a rigorous quality quality testing that we do with all of our products produced at Buffalo Trace.

Inspection is expected to take several weeks.

However, we do not expect to experience any meaningful loss of our inventory.

Next week, the distillery is planning to open for visitors whose appointments were canceled due to the floods.

You can find more updates on when they will be fully open and back to normal operation on their social media channels.