Buffalo Trace Distillery ready to welcome Kentucky Derby visitors after devastating flooding

FRANKFORT, Ky.– A celebrated bourbon distillery that was severely flooded successful aboriginal April is prepared to invited its largest fig of visitors since the flooding. 

The Kentucky Derby week is underway, and we're conscionable 2 days distant from the contention connected Saturday.

Businesses crossed Kentucky hole for Derby weekend, and Buffalo Trace Distillery successful Frankfort is nary different. 

The flooding forced the distillery to adjacent for 10 days portion the h2o receded and harm cleanup began. 

Photos taken connected April 7 and 11 showed the grade of the flooding, with h2o surrounding the distillery campus' buildings. 

250 POUNDS OF STRANDED FISH RESCUED FROM BUFFALO TRACE DISTILLERY AFTER HISTORIC KENTUCKY FLOOD

"Restoration enactment is astir 75% implicit passim campus," a Buffalo Trace spokesperson told FOX Weather. "Ongoing enactment includes repairs to equipment, chiefly electrical repairs."

Tours of the distillery person started successful a modified capableness arsenic of Thursday. Buffalo Trace is lone unfastened to guests via preservation portion crews proceed to repair harm from the flooding. 

Reservations volition proceed into adjacent week, beyond Derby weekend. 

The archetypal level of the distillery's visitant halfway reopened connected Tuesday for the archetypal clip since the flooding. 

The archetypal level of Buffalo Trace's visitant halfway reopened Tuesday, April 29. 

(Buffalo Trace Distillery / FOX Weather)

Buffalo Trace invites radical visiting the distillery Thursday done Sunday to their Race Days astatine the Trace celebration, successful grant of the Derby. 

The distillery said this would beryllium the largest fig of visitors they've had since the flooding.