Barrels, Wood, and Aged Malt Whiskey
Davin Sanders
By Davin Sanders
Nov 16, 2015
During these agonizingly long periods of time, there is no shaking that feeling expectancy that comes with your eagerness to see the drink finally ready for tasting. However, despite your best efforts at ensuring the use of quality malt, or being careful to utilize only the heart of the run while getting rid of the foreshot and tail, it will be difficult to ever achieve the taste often found in top shelf liquors. This isn't to say that your efforts at creating a superb single malt whiskey are futile; rather, your production of whiskey just needs the incorporation of an additional element beyond the use of superior quality moonshine stills.
Just as the taste of …show more content…
In older times, wooden casks were used primarily as a way to transport and store the liquor before relatively quick consumption. Indeed, there wasn't really an aim at first to try and manipulate the flavors through aging in wooden barrels after distillation in superior quality moonshine stills. In fact, most of the liquor was usually consumed before the aging process was able to work its magic upon the drink. However, as time went on, there would be some barrels of whiskey that wouldn't be consumed as quickly as the others and would remain in storage inside their oak barrels for extended periods of time. In the ensuing months and years after placement in these casks, the whiskey, upon discovery, was found to have undergone remarkable changes to its flavor which made those drinking the spirit quite happy. While there isn't a specific person who can be attributed to this type of discovery, there is no doubt that the nature of this particular find would have a profound impact upon the whiskey enterprise as a …show more content…
However, the revelations didn't end with this important discovery. Indeed, certain varieties of wood have been ultimately found to produce unique influences upon taste. As a result, the very materials used to construct barrels themselves have come to be viewed as instrumental to the entire process. For instance, oak has emerged as the preferred wood of choice not only because of its flexible, yet solid composition (important for the creation of casks), but also because of the distinct flavors it adds to the spirit produced from superior quality moonshine stills. In particular, White American oak has become an established part of
Davin Sanders
By Davin Sanders
Nov 16, 2015
During these agonizingly long periods of time, there is no shaking that feeling expectancy that comes with your eagerness to see the drink finally ready for tasting. However, despite your best efforts at ensuring the use of quality malt, or being careful to utilize only the heart of the run while getting rid of the foreshot and tail, it will be difficult to ever achieve the taste often found in top shelf liquors. This isn't to say that your efforts at creating a superb single malt whiskey are futile; rather, your production of whiskey just needs the incorporation of an additional element beyond the use of superior quality moonshine stills.
Just as the taste of …show more content…
In older times, wooden casks were used primarily as a way to transport and store the liquor before relatively quick consumption. Indeed, there wasn't really an aim at first to try and manipulate the flavors through aging in wooden barrels after distillation in superior quality moonshine stills. In fact, most of the liquor was usually consumed before the aging process was able to work its magic upon the drink. However, as time went on, there would be some barrels of whiskey that wouldn't be consumed as quickly as the others and would remain in storage inside their oak barrels for extended periods of time. In the ensuing months and years after placement in these casks, the whiskey, upon discovery, was found to have undergone remarkable changes to its flavor which made those drinking the spirit quite happy. While there isn't a specific person who can be attributed to this type of discovery, there is no doubt that the nature of this particular find would have a profound impact upon the whiskey enterprise as a …show more content…
However, the revelations didn't end with this important discovery. Indeed, certain varieties of wood have been ultimately found to produce unique influences upon taste. As a result, the very materials used to construct barrels themselves have come to be viewed as instrumental to the entire process. For instance, oak has emerged as the preferred wood of choice not only because of its flexible, yet solid composition (important for the creation of casks), but also because of the distinct flavors it adds to the spirit produced from superior quality moonshine stills. In particular, White American oak has become an established part of