Photos: Raising a glass to the science of bourbon

This is the main entrance to the Maker's Mark distillery. In its current form, as Maker's Mark, the facility has been open since 1953, but the distillery itself has been running for more than 200 years in various forms, having opened in 1805. That makes it the world's oldest continually operating distillery.

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