While many of the world's "lost" distilleries are serious tourist attractions for serious whisky drinkers, most are either still used for storage by their parent companies, or they've been demolished and removed from the earth entirely; the land was either too valuable to waste or the abandoned buildings simply became an eyesore. Port Ellen, for example, is still used by Diageo as a malting center. Brora is used for warehousing space. Stitzel-Weller functions as the head office for Bulleit Bourbon. The Old Taylor distillery in Kentucky's Woodford County was one of the few accessible ruinous sites up until a few years ago when an investment group purchased the dilapidated buildings and began refurbishing them under the name Castle and Key. The main offices were right on the road, so all you had to do was park and explore the rubble. I remember digging through the old records of the accounting building back in 2013, completely flabbergasted that something so cool was just sitting there wasting away. But there was another seriously haunted-looking old distillery nearby that I'd been itching to break into for years: the Old Crow distillery. It was completely fenced off and deeply set into a small valley between the hills. You could make out some of the brick buildings through the chain link barrier, but not much more.