Re: Bourbon Barrels

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.