Thousands of bottles of whiskey spill onto Missouri highway after truck overturn

[Graybeard]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-whiskey-spill-truck-highway

By Stephen Sorace | Fox News


Broken bottles of whiskey lay across the highway and scattered into a nearby ditch. (White Rock Fire District)

A trunk hauling crates of whiskey through Missouri spilled thousands of bottles onto a highway after overturning early Wednesday.

The truck was carrying 40,000 pounds – about 12,000 bottles – of Templeton Rye whiskey when it rolled around 5 a.m. on U.S. Highway 71 near the Arkansas border, KODE-TV first reported.


No one was injured. However, photos of the wreckage showed a shredded tractor trailer. Thousands of bottles of the 80 proof spirit were broken and strewn across the highway and in a nearby ditch.


"It makes you wonder what else can go wrong in 2020,” Templeton Rye co-founder Keith Kerkhoff told the Springfield News-Leader. “Thank God, nobody got hurt.”

The four-year-old whiskey was being shipped from a distributor in Templeton, Iowa, Kevin Boersma, Templeton Rye's processing manager, told the paper.


The shipment, which had a retail value over $325,000, was considered a total loss, along with the truck and trailer, Kerkhoff and Boersma said.


While pictures and video from the scene showed some cases may not have been damaged, it remained unclear whether any of the whiskey was salvaged.

[Argent 88]

Yet, you can't even find any rubbing alcohol on the shelves. I'm about to resort to vodka lol.

[Graybeard]

I've noticed that and same for peroxide. Ya can't find either.

I do have a decent supply of rubbing alcohol and I did pick up a couple of small bottles awhile back somewhere, don't recall where. I'm really low on peroxide tho and sure would like to pick up a few bottles of that.

I try to keep both on hand at all times. I'm not gonna buy that expensive drinking stuff to use as rubbing alcohol tho, I'm not in that desperate a need. I used to see both alcohol and acetone in gallon and quarter cans in the paints area at Wal-Mart. I wonder if they are still there? Of course it doesn't matter as I no longer go to Wal-mart.

[Argent 88]

We have lots of peroxide. Just no alcohol Wanna barter lol. 

[oldandslow]

If it was scotch there was no great loss. I haven't needed either rubbing alcohol or peroxide so I have no idea of their availability. I do know vodka doesn't contain nearly as much alcohol as is in rubbing alcohol but I guess it would beat nothing at all.