Bits of aged charcoal and wooden plugs lay in a trough after a whiskey barrel was dumped at George Dickel Distillery. Rights managed stock photograph by Nashville Photographer Kristina Krug.
George Dickel whiskey is filtered through charcoal in a process called “mellowing” then aged in charred oak barrels. Here, aged whiskey barrels have been unplugged and emptied by hand into a steel trough before filtering and bottling.