The booming $9 billion Kentucky bourbon industry has created a boom in something else: Whiskey fungus. New whiskey warehouses, long a part of the Bluegrass landscape and more recently fueled by ...

Potential neighbors of new Kentucky bourbon barrel warehouse campuses are concerned about the impact that whiskey fungus could have on their homes, their property and possibly their health.

Most people have never even seen whiskey fungus, except in the immediate vicinities of the rickhouses. But as the number of barrels aging in states such as Kentucky and Tennessee has continued to ...

The Longs are not the first to take legal action over whiskey fungus from distilleries. Kentucky homeowners filed class-action lawsuits against several Louisville distilleries over the black ...

The centuries-old black, sticky substance is nothing new for those who live around bourbon, rum and whiskey makers ... in Frankfort, Kentucky, is covered in the fungus, named Baudoinia ...

A stop sign in a subdivision near a Jim Beam production and bottling facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, on April 23, 2014, covered in the fungus (left) and a stock image of a whiskey glass next ...

Kentucky Distillers’ Association President ... A black fungus that feeds on the ethanol emitted as whiskey ages. The “whiskey fungus” has been been a nuisance around liquor facilities ...

Other residents in Tennessee and Kentucky, where distilleries are present, have filed lawsuits over whiskey fungus. Local residents in York, Maine, recently asked city officials to investigate ...

By Michael Levenson The ethanol-fueled fungus known as whiskey ... complaints from residents who live near Kentucky bourbon distilleries, Canadian whiskey makers and Caribbean rum manufacturers.

The black fungus Baudoinia has been documented as coating buildings, cars and street signs in areas of Kentucky, where millions of gallons of whiskey are produced each year. Wiggly Bridge ...

As whiskey ages, a small amount evaporates, a loss that has long been poetically called the “angels’ share.” But in the ...

In Kentucky, where 95% of the world’s bourbon ... Complaints include a destructive black “whiskey fungus,” the loss of prime farmland and liquor-themed tourist developments that are more ...