How They Stamped Bourbon Out of Existence: The Empty Casks Mystery
How They Stamped Bourbon Out of Existence: The Empty Casks Mystery
The gravel apron held seven upright bourbon casks at 4:51 a.m., and the manifest listed them as empty - a legal paper that, by law, made those barrels nonexistent. Forty-eight casks had been incrementally marked empty over eleven weeks while no alarm, audit, or warehouse worker noticed; who used the manifest to erase nearly 2,000 gallons of bourbon and how was it concealed?
In this episode, we follow the discovery, the records, and the people who first put the paradox on the table, tracing the timeline from a teenager’s…
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