Thursday, March 2, 2023

WTF is a 'whiskey fungus'?

 
A Jack Daniels building project is to be halted after a neighbour argued she was facing a plague of whiskey fungus caused by escaping alcohol vapours.
Christi Long, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, claimed her property was coated in the fungus, which appears as a black crust on surfaces. It is a growing issue for people in the area, her lawyer said. The fungus, which consumes ethanol fumes, grows on surfaces near bakeries and distilleries around the world.
 

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6 comments:

  1. A fungus that lives on ethanol fumes. My kind of fungus. I certainly hope they can get this under control. Would hate to see it impact the company in any bad way. And what about Bourbon country up in KY? Can't imagine that the environmental conditions (humidity, temps, etc.) are that radically different between the two production areas.

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  2. I've never actually Seen it, but reading this, I'm pretty sure I've Woke Up with it a time or two.

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  3. Translation: "Jack Daniels is making a shit-ton of money and I want to wet my beak."

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  4. its the blackness around the gas cap on some cars

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  5. When I toured some of the bourbon distilleries in Kentucky the trees had a black fungus growing on them. It was a result of the distilling process. It didn't hurt the trees but, apparently, it alerted Revenue agents during prohibition to illegal stills.

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  6. Funny how it hasn't been a problem for about 150 years. Funny how the fungus is common around distilleries, breweries and bakeries, yet the target is Jack Daniels. Funny how there are no laws forbidding people from moving out of Lynchburg.

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