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Gov. Bentley To Visit Whiskey Barrel Production Plant

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is scheduled to visit a plant where workers will build oak barrels that will hold Jack Daniel's Whiskey.

TRINITY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is scheduled to visit a plant where workers will build oak barrels that will hold Jack Daniel's Whiskey.

Bentley is expected to visit the grand opening of Jack Daniel's Cooperage in Trinity on Monday morning.

In a release, Bentley says the plant will employ about 200 people and the barrels are used to hold the whiskey while it matures.

Trinity is about seven miles west of Decatur.

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