The assisting facility changed, but the affected producer reports retaining the mashbill, cooperage, and maturation stages. Provenance must capture both external capacity and retained controls.
The producer describes how it continued after losing its Bardstown distillery and multiple rickhouses.
Heaven Hill’s official history says competitors offered production help immediately after the 1996 fire and that multiple companies subsequently distilled Heaven Hill’s signature mashbill for aging in Heaven Hill’s own barrels and rickhouses.
Paragraphs 1–2; page lines 263–268
1997 — Rebuilding from the Ashes
1997 — Rebuilding from the Ashes
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Evidence
Heaven Hill’s official history says competitors offered production help immediately after the 1996 fire and that multiple companies subsequently distilled Heaven Hill’s signature mashbill for aging in Heaven Hill’s own barrels and rickhouses.
Locator
1997 — Rebuilding from the Ashes, paragraphs 1–2; public page lines 263–268.
Context
The producer describes how it continued after losing its Bardstown distillery and multiple rickhouses.
Research boundary
Do not infer the identity of every assisting company, product, batch, or inventory component from this passage.