Barrell Craft Spirits

Nic Christiansen joined in 2019, and she now manages its blending operations.¹ Also in 2019, it began its private release line, small and exclusive blends of rum, whiskey, and bourbon.² Stellum began with bourbon, rye, and single barrels, each bottled from one barrel, all at cask strength: as strong as it leaves the cask, with no water added.^4,5

In December 2022 it bought a rickhouse, a warehouse for storing barrels, in Shively, Kentucky, from Angel's Envy.^7,8 Beatrice said it would ease handling barrels from about 65 producers and add storage near its blending facility; it was built in 1940 as part of a Yellowstone Distillery campus.^7,8 In 2023 it opened a 31,000-square-foot blending site and new headquarters in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, whose eight tanks raised its blending capacity by more than 500%.^8,9,10 The project began at $3.2 million and grew to $15 million.^8,9,10 In 2023 it also launched Barrell Foundation, a 100-proof bourbon, half alcohol by volume, and its first whiskey not bottled at cask strength.¹¹ In 2026 it sold the Jeffersontown site to American Craft Bottling and said it would move all blending to its original Gilmore site and stop contract bottling for other firms.^12,13 Beatrice said buying patterns had shifted, and that the sale let it invest in new high-speed bottling equipment.^12,13

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