Whiskey Distillery Tour: Woodford Reserve 

That is nice to see the bubbling fermenting mash at 2:27. I enjoyed seeing the three pot stills at 4:40. I liked how you spoke softly while the whiskey was aging at 6:56 (the whiskey is sleeping). It was nice to see the master distiller at 8:45. He comes across as being a nice guy. Forty years of experience is impressive. I like how he says that the product is "a labor of love". This was a well done presentation. Thank you for posting it.

Woodford Reserve Double Oaked was my first bottle of higher end whiskey. Also, as of yesterday, the first whiskey where I got "sweetness" in the smell. My whiskey journey has begun and I am excited 😁

It’s been 8 years now, I think it’s time you visited these US bourbon distilleries again for an updated tour. A lot has happened in the last 8 years.

The regular Woodford reserve is quite a spirit. Enjoying right now in fact. :-)

A favorite of mine. Great video and most educational.

Chris Morris is my favorite master distiller - perfect mix of know-how expertise and likeability personality.

I've come to really love Woodford. Pot still bourbon and a variety of offerings, unique bottles at very reasonable price points for what you're getting- unbeatable! Their double barrel really changed things for me- so rich and sweet, almost like a rum but with the refinement of whiskey. Thanks for the video tour!

Just popped my Woodford "cherry" (11:16) tonight. I am blown away by how you can take such a complex creation and express it to the world in simplicity and no burn!

My girlfriend and I took the tour this year. Wonderful experience. Great distillery and a great staff.

I wish I was Horst's son and could be sent on these vists

Wow! I just bought a bottle and had to find out a little more about the process ...Its the best I've had so far for a poor man

Damn yummy stuff! One of my favorite bourbons!

Video was very informative - enjoyed viewing

Woodford Reserve is my favorite Bourbon. I haven't had a chance to try their Rye or Double Oaked yet... I grew up in Jessamine County about 35 miles from their distillery.

Nice video, I've been watching many of Ben's visits, and this is a good one.

I must be a light-weight because I love Woodford. Love your channel, father and son are very charming and professional...

Honestly one of the only bourbons that hasn't changed in the past 5 years

Woodford definitely has their own distinct taste. I just bought my first Woodford bottle selected by Chris Morris =D Shout outs to Chris. It's very good. I'll be going for the Double Oaked version after this bottle.

Just now drinking Double Oak Single barrel. Really quite awesome, I highly recommend!

Good presentation Ben.

Definitely a favorite 👍 been getting it for a while decades now. Orginal is my favorite of them

Benedikt is a great taster

Great video! They get lit at the end and it’s quite funny XD

Very impressed with the facility. Out of the handful of tours ive seen; it seems woodford looks less industrial and cleaner. Even the fermentin tub being wood and not a crumbling cement tank like on a previous tour. After watching, i will now have to pick up some woodford to try.

Woodford rye is awesome

A great Bourbon. The pot still process makes all the difference. My favourite.

I usually stick to beer these days but asked for this on an airplane the other day, very good and very smooth.

After trying many whiskies, this is my favorite. "Great" is an overused word...but the finish of Woodford Reserve is great.

Cool Video, Thank you.

Sipping a dram of this as I watch. Good to feel as though I'm right in its birthplace as I enjoy it 😄

This is so cool

I love the double Oaked

Woodford makes great whiskey

imagine taking a dip bath in that fermentation vessel and feeling the bubbles ,must be good for you too with all those grains soaking your skin

Drinking Woodford Reserve Double Oaked as I watch this. Nice little video, but that spring at the beginning did not look like the sweet, clear limestone water I had imagined lol.

Woodford Reserve Straight Kentucky Bourbon has become my favorite bourbon. I knew right from the first nosing it was going to have amazing tasting notes. Still wanting to try the Double Oaked, it will be my next bottle.

I will be trying some double oak.

A portion of the whiskey that they put in their base product is actually column stilled. It comes from the Brown-Foreman Louisville distillery that produces Old Forester. This was confirmed by our guide on the corn to cork tour. He couldn't tell me how much of the pot stilled distillate actually gets into the bottle. The Masters Collection is all pot stilled as are the new distillery only special releases.

The taste of my side was amazing to Bravo :)

And they are making beer kits for homebrewing too!

The best job in the world!

Darn it... I will buy a barrel of that double oaked! Awesome bourbon!

Woodford Reserve is my favorite bourbon, I was surprised not to hear anything about a banana notes.

Growing in popularity in Australia=Great Drop 🥃

No one has showing base of Cooper distillery because want to know how the distillery is boiling the fermantaion grains by flame or by heating coil distillery are working.

22:45 Teaching him a little about quality control. this is hilarious. thumbs up

Notice Chris called the standard Woodford Reserve a pot stilled "influenced" whiskey and he didn't say "yes" when you said "Ok, so we aren't looking at any column stilled whiskey". So he kinda obfuscated the truth by not replying to what you said and didn't lie really. But some would say holding back the truth IS a lie. I still like their whiskey when I can find it on sale.

Doesn't the alcohol evaporate when the mash ferments in an open barrel?

Man the narrator sounds like Tommy Wiseau

I love Woodford Reserve - My favourite Bourbon by far - so smooth, that's the thing, - its SMOOTH - So many bourbons burn my throat, like drinking fire water. - Not Woodford. I live in the UK.

43% ? mine is 45.2% in canada

Undoubtedly one of the best bourbons! Can't escape the slightest tinge of coconut flavour which lingers around. Don't know from where it comes from........

How muchhh

isn't standard Woodford 90.4 proof?

I sip some at the Kentucky derby how bout juuu fellas😙😙😙😙😘😘😘😘😘🐽😘💝💝

It's too bad he didn't have a bottle of Double Double Oaked to present.

well im sorry but i have tasted a few different american whiskies or bourbons and unfortunately they have this nasty printer ink smell and it also comes through heavy in the taste ,perhaps it masks the supposed sweet corn or rye because im barely tasting them and although woodford is perhaps the mellowest of all the ones i tried it still has this unique signature i do not like ,perhaps its an acquired taste but canadian pure rye whisky is much sweeter and different tasting and im hoping pure corn whisky is better than when it is in bourbon style,,perhaps its the virgin wood being used but i do not find these sweet notes much in bourbons in general nor in woodford ,can someone tell me what that inky smell and taste is from,is it the barrels? anyways after taking a few sips of woodford and then going back to my bottom shelf scotches like grants or ballantines there flavours comes out and shine so mellow and sweet with caramel vanilla and brown sugar so if you need a set back reference do have some bourbon and then you will find how much better these scotches tastes afterwards once your palate has been coated by a dry leathery tobacco yanki whisky lol what you then thought of bad scotches will start to shine in sweet aroma and taste, i give up putting good money in these expensive americant whiskies

Lol, spheres don't increase surface area, they increase volume, reducing surface area 😰 how does that improve reflux...

"Heated" warehouses... smh

Hey, what was the name of the presenter, i forgot after i read it about 100 hundred times every few seconds...

Spuhruhtschz

I see that Walter White gave up meth and decided to move to Kentucky and make whiskey instead.

There is an absolute SHITLOAD of distilleries using pot stills. And Small Batch doesn't use 28KL fermenters either.