Re: Bourbon Barrels

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:01:09 +0000, flood of sins wrote:

On 2025-04-07, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

60 Minutes tonight had a segment on bourbon barrels, how they are made
and used.  Last year, Kentucky distillers bought 3.2 million charred oak
barrels.

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For a whisky to be called bourbon, it must be aged in a charred oak
barrel.  It gives the spirits color and flavor and is aged from months
to many years.  The bourbon is emptied, but the barrel lives on.

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The used barrels are shipped around the world to Europe, India, China
where they are used to age other spirits.  They showed a warehouse that
just takes them in and re-ships by the thousands.

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The episode had some influence on me.  As I'm typing this, I'm sipping a
wee bit of 7 year old Whistle Pig bourbon.

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i don't like Bourbon at all. when i started drinking whisky i
tried many different brands and don't like any of them. i love
Scotch and i do like several Scotches that spent some time aging
in used Bourbon barrels though.
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Whistle Pig makes a great rye whisky. my fav is Crown Royal. go
Canada!

My younger brother drinks Scotch. He also likes to smoke fine cigars.
He's a connoisseur of fine things. He also likes to run many miles in
the mornings and evenings. He's even raised show dogs. He's a rich guy
and a lot different from my brother and I. I wouldn't like to be him -
it's way too hard of a life.