Western Kentucky Distilling hosted the grand opening of its $30 million distillery in Ohio County’s Bluegrass Crossings Business Centre on Oct. 18.

JD Edwards, the distillery’s president, said Friday that the distillery is still growing.

Thursday, the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority approved $216,000 for five new warehouses at the distillery.

Total cost of the warehouses will be about $5 million.

Edwards said the distillery has already build three warehouses.

The fourth will open in July and the fifth this fall.

And the distillery plans to build five more by the end of 2026, Edwards said.

Each warehouse can hold 17,000 barrels of aging bourbon.

So, by the end of 2026, Western Kentucky Distilling will have 170,000 barrels in its warehouses.

Each barrel holds 53 gallons of bourbon or rye, making the total of aging whiskey around 9 million gallons.

That, Edwards said, will mean 50 million bottles of whiskey in the warehouses.

There’s room on the 81-acre property for 15 or 16 warehouses, Jacob Call, the distillery’s chief operating officer and master distiller, said last year.

Edwards said Western Kentucky Distilling plans to begin shipping whiskey overseas soon.

And later this year, the company will begin releasing its own brands of bourbon and rye.

The company began making its first bourbon on July 19.

So far, it’s filled 45,000 barrels, Edwards said.

The whiskey is being aged for at least four years.

Western Kentucky is the state’s second-largest Kentucky-owned distillery — after Heaven Hill in Bardstown.

This bourbon has a mashbill of 70% Kentucky corn, 21% rye and 9% malted barley.

It goes into the barrel at 120 proof.

Bluegrass Crossings is near the intersection of I-165 and the Wendell H. Ford Western Kentucky Parkway.