It is difficult to imagine that your favorite whiskey is the culprit of a black fungus that coats the homes, cars, stop signs, even trees of neighborhoods from Kentucky to the Virgin Islands to Scotland. The fungus – Baudoinia compniacensis, is reemerging, not just in the neighborhoods it has engulfed, but in the courtroom where attempts have been made for over a decade to make the corporations involved clean up their mess.
Whiskey Fungus Cases
U.S. Virgin Islands Superior Court Denies Diageo and Cruzan Rum’s Motion to Dismiss
The Court held a hearing on May 27, 2015. For the reasons stated below, the Court will grant in part, and deny in part, Defendants' Motion to Dismiss... Read the entire order overruling the defendant [PDF].
DPNR Ready to Act in Rum Fungus Case
It's called "the angel's cut," but there could be the devil to pay as officials move to curtail the release of ethanol that is a byproduct of rum distillation and storage on St. Croix. At a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Health, Hospital and Human Services...
Rum Fungus Takes Center Stage
ST. CROIX — The Senate Committee on Health, Hospital and Human Services, chaired by Sen. Kurt Vialet, met at the Fritz Lawetz Conference Room on Wednesday to hear testimony and discuss the rum fungus issue affecting the west end of the island. Read more at The Virgin...
Hearing set in St. Croix rum fungus lawsuit
A hearing will take place on St. Croix later this month as Diageo USVI, Inc. and Cruzan VIRIL, Ltd., owners of St. Croix's two distilleries, seek to have a lawsuit regarding the impact of rum fungus dismissed. See: Hearing set in St. Croix rum fungus lawsuit,at Virgin...
LEX 18 Investigates: Whiskey Fungus
Kentucky loves its Bourbon but some Kentuckians are blaming the spirit for a nasty and potentially harmful problem: fungus. -LEX18.com, NBC LEX18.com | Continuous News and StormTracker Weather LEX 18 Investigates: Whiskey Fungus.
McMurry On Top of Kentucky’s Whiskey Fungus Problem
A lawyer who on Friday won a big ruling that revives a battle in Louisville over whiskey fungus from aging bourbon said city officials could solve the problem, if they wanted to.... See The Courier Journal story and video: Appeals Court revives whiskey fungus...
McMurry makes great progress in whiskey fungus class action lawsuit
A victory for those going after Kentucky bourbon makers means a lawsuit against two distilleries over whiskey fungus is now back on track. A black fungus blankets homes and businesses near bourbon distilleries. It's called “whiskey fungus” or Baudoinia...
Attacking the growing problem of whiskey fungus
If there’s a downside to whiskey, it’s in Shively, Kentucky. A low-income suburb of Louisville, Shively is home to five whiskey distilleries and one of the nastiest cases of whiskey fungus in America. Driving down its residential streets, you’ll notice that just about...