023 - He Held Every Job Possible at Stitzel-Weller Distillery with Carol Perry

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🗓️ 10 September 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Carol Perry, or just Perry, is a legend in his own right. Perry has worked at the Stitzel-Weller distillery in Shively for 45 years. He has held about every job you could possibly have and is currently working security and head greeter for the Bulleit Frontier Experience. Show Notes: Give us an idea of what you have been doing here for the past 45 years Talk about what life is like working at the warehouse Why did they have windows open only during the day? What other kinds of experiences did you gather from working at warehouse? Drinking your own product on the job probably wasn’t uncommon back then How automated were the processes back then? What do you mean by dumping the glass? Did you ever have any interactions with the Van Winkle family? Wasn’t there a break room incident with Julian? What were you doing when the distillery closed its doors? Any security incidents in your time? You’ve seen the ups and downs, is this the craziest time you’ve ever seen? Is there a best memory that sticks out for you during this time?

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0:00.0	When we was going to high school, there's about 15 of us guys that all run together.
0:04.1	And every one of them went to work for a distillery when we got out of high school, but me.
0:11.0	And I said, that's not what I want to do.
0:13.0	I said, I don't want to do that.
0:14.0	I want to do something else.
0:16.0	And I'm the only one in the whole bunch that wound up working a whole lifetime.
0:20.0	We're back with another episode of the Burbank Pursuit Podcast. one in a whole bunch that wound up working a whole lifetime.
0:24.1	We're back with another episode of the Bourbon Pursuit podcast.
0:27.4	My name is Kenny, and I have Ryan here today.
0:28.5	And Ryan, how's it going?
0:33.4	Good man, still sleep deprived from the twins, but rocking and rolling.
0:39.3	Excited for today, we're here at Stittsler Weller, here in Shabbily, Louisville, Kentucky. Excited to talk to Mr. Perry here.
0:42.3	He's worked at Stetsleweller to Silly for the past 45 years.
0:46.3	He's here today as a kind of a historian generation and kind of a storyteller.
0:53.3	I think these are just the stories
0:55.0	that people want to be able to hear just because, you know, here in the next 50 years,
1:01.7	a lot of these stories, they'll never be heard of again because everybody that kind of started
1:05.6	this whole verbin industry eons ago, it's now, it's now matured to a point where it's, we want to try to capture as much as we
1:12.1	can.
1:13.0	You know, the Stitzel Weller stuff I know is, you know, from the Pappy.
1:16.7	And I was too, whenever they shut down, I was only five or six years old.
1:20.8	So I haven't had too much Stitzel Weller product, but interested to hear, you know,
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