Maturation Phase News Today

Our next stop in verse i, kentucky. meet somebody, the assistant master distiller. >> excited to show you around. >> reporter: lets check it out. >> what is happening is to consume the sugar and convert it to alcohol. this is early on fermentation so it is really sweet, got rocking and rolling, triggers to alcohol. >> reporter: it is like sweet breaded liquid. where are we right now? >> this is the barrel warehouse, historic warehouse. there are 5000 barrels resting here right now. this is the m...

The going to consume the sugar and convert it to alcohol. give it a taste. this one is early on fermentation. its really sweet. the yeast hasnt gotten rocking and rolling to convert sugars to alcohol. >> like a sweet bread in liquid form. >> its good. >> where are we now. >> this is our barrel warehouse. historic warehouse. there is about 5,000-barrels resting here right now. this is the maturation phase. this is where a lot of that magic happens. we are using those barrels to create almost 60 t...