BOOZY FUNGUS EATS TENNESSEE
In Lincoln County, Tennessee, the whiskey distiller Jack Daniel’s has come into conflict with local residents over the six large barrel houses they have built to age their product. During this process, a proportion of the alcohol, often known as “the angel’s share”, evaporates from the barrels. This alcohol, wafting out of the barrel houses, provides the ideal conditions for the growth of the fungus Baudoinia compniacensis, better known as the whiskey fungus, which thrives on alcohol fumes, and is steadily spreading across the country covering everything in its path.
Residents have
