The Bung in the Ditch: How a Missing Stopper Exposed Bourbon Theft
The Bung in the Ditch: How a Missing Stopper Exposed Bourbon Theft
A single wooden bung, upright in red clay with a faint ring of dried bourbon, started a federal probe when it was photographed on August 14, 2011-raising the question: how does a sealed, bonded cask lose one and what did that reveal about missing whiskey? The discovery tied a decommissioned manifest entry, anomalous weight, and repeated unauthorized movements to a single workstation and one inventory clerk-so who was pulling the strings?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events that followed Patterson's photograph…
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