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Making charcoal at the Jack Daniel Distillery. The Lincoln County Process is a step used in producing almost all Tennessee whiskeys.The whiskey is filtered through—or steeped in [1] —charcoal chips before going into the casks for aging.
Barrel aging is a process used to add maturity and character and additional flavour to a beer. Beers are aged for a period of time in a wooden barrel. Typically, these barrels once housed wine, rum, whiskey, bourbon, tequila, and other wines and spirits. Beers are sometimes aged in barrels to achieve a variety of effects in the final product.
A 16th-century brewery Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast. It may be done in a brewery by a commercial brewer, at home by a homebrewer, or communally. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence ...
The creamy head on beers such as Guinness is created by a widget in cans or bottles using nitrogen, or by the process of drawing keg beer from a keg using nitrogen or mixed gas (carbon dioxide and nitrogen). The use of nitrogen, which was pioneered by Guinness, creates a firm head with small bubbles while reducing the excessively acidic taste ...
A close-up view of grains steeping in warm water during the mashing stage of brewing. In brewing and distilling, mashing is the process of combining ground grain – malted barley and sometimes supplementary grains such as corn, sorghum, rye, or wheat (known as the "grain bill") – with water and then heating the mixture.
Imperial stouts are often aged in bourbon barrels, which impart flavours of American oak (coconut, dill, sweet spices), accentuated by charring of the barrel interior. [25] [26] Bourbon barrels are by far the most common oak barrels used by brewers in the United States. Each distillery uses its own blend of oak and its own level of charring ...
Beer foam on the bunghole of a barrel in a brewery. A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel to remove contents. The hole is capped with a cork or cork-like stopper called a bung. Acceptable usage includes other access points that may be capped with alternate materials providing an air- or water-tight access to other vessels.
Because the firm sold their whiskey in barrels, it was very easy for unscrupulous retailers to pass off lower quality whiskey as the genuine article. To deter counterfeits, White & Alexander began branding the distillery name "J.A. Miller Old Bourbon Distillery" on one barrel head and "J.A. Miller Chicken Cock Whisky" on the other barrel head. [21]