Could they make this into a movie? Whiskey Fungus Fed by Jack Daniel's Encrusts a Tennessee Town.

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The ethanol-fueled fungus known as whiskey fungus has thrived for centuries around distilleries and bakeries. It’s been the source of complaints from residents who live near Kentucky bourbon distilleries, Canadian whisky makers and Caribbean rum manufacturers.

Now it is driving a wedge between some residents of Lincoln County, Tennessee, and Jack Daniel’s, the famed distillery founded in 1866 in neighboring Moore County.

For months, some residents have complained that a sooty, dark crust has blanketed homes, cars, road signs, bird feeders, patio furniture and trees as the fungus has spread uncontrollably, fed by alcohol vapors wafting from charred oak barrels of aging Jack Daniel’s whiskey.

Jack Daniel’s has built six warehouses, known as barrelhouses, to age whiskey in rural Lincoln County, which is home to about 35,000 residents, and is building a seventh on a property that has room to house one more, a company spokesman said. The distillery has asked the county to rezone a second property where it could build six additional barrelhouses.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/whiskey-fungus-fed-jack-daniels-125723030.html

[Mz Pip]

1. Last of Us

Let’s hope it doesn’t start turning people into mushrooms. 😉

[Probatim]

4. Matango - Attack of the Mushroom People.

Makes me miss Chilly Billy.

[cyclonefence]

2. An airborne fungus

is not good news for living creatures with lungs. Pulmonary fungal infections are very difficult to treat, and treatment with drugs can take a year or longer. If you're lucky.

[intrepidity]

3. Perhaps this tech could help

[bahboo]

5. Whiskey Fungus....good band name...