Single barrel is a bit of a misnomer because it is a two-stage aging process.

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The unfortunate fact is, even if we stop importing oil from anywhere but Canada and Mexico even if we produce every single barrel we consume the price of oil in the U.S. will be set on world markets.

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They're looking for the rare and hard-to-get, the limited releases, the birthday bourbons and single-barrel bourbons.

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All this from a single 108, 000-barrel-a-day teakettle in Coffeyville, Kans. (pop. 11, 000) and a fertilizer plant nearby.

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