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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.
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.
Solera means 'on the ground' in Spanish, and it refers to the lower level of the set of barrels or other containers used in the process; the liquid is traditionally transferred from barrel to barrel, top to bottom, the oldest mixtures being in the barrel right "on the ground". The containers in today's process are not necessarily stacked ...
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.
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.
Column stills are frequently used in the production of grain whisky and are the most commonly used type of still in the production of bourbon and other American whiskeys. Distillation by column still is the traditional method for production of Armagnac, although distillation by pot still is allowed.
Melissa Etheridge rocks the Barrel Stage on Friday Melissa Etheridge performed on the second day of the Bourbon & Beyond music festival in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.
It has a coned narrow hole at the bottom and a vent hole at the top in which a distiller can cover with the thumb once the device is inserted in the barrel to trap and lift the whiskey out. [3] By removing the thumb from the upper vent hole, the whiskey is released to drain into drinking glasses for tasting.