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Our next stop in verse i, kentucky. meet somebody, the assistant master distiller. >> excited to show you around. >> reporter: let's 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 maturation phase, that is where the magic happens, creating 60% of the flavor and 100% of the color.

The going to consume the sugar and convert it to alcohol. give it a taste. this one is early on fermentation. it's really sweet. the yeast hasn't gotten rocking and rolling to convert sugars to alcohol. >> like a sweet bread in liquid form. >> it's 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 to 80% of the flavor and 100 percent of the color. todd: i'm told because we have a good relations...