Whisky Advocate: Stitzel-Weller Is for Sale…But Not Its Name or Its Stills

Royce Neeley, master distiller of Sparta, Kentucky’s Neeley Family Distillery, had first seen the listing online. The 1.34-million-square-foot Stitzel-Weller campus in Shively, inclusive of 15 rickhouses (with capacity for nearly 330,000 barrels), a bottling line, thousands of square feet of office space, and its unique distilled spirit plant code (DSP-KY-16), was up for sale, listed at $34.8 million.

But there’s a catch: the distillery building itself, which housed the original still and whiskey-making equipment, is not part of the deal. He absorbed that information and went about his day, forgetting about it until a few weeks later when he got a call from a realtor asking if he would like to buy Stitzel-Weller. Whisky Advocate has the full story.

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