Read more: 16 Best Bourbons To Use In Your Old Fashioned There are over 600 varieties in the oak tree family, but the most commonly used for barrel staves is American (or white) oak. The wood is ...

Two different types of American oak staves were used to finish the bourbon, with 10 staves of the same variety inserted into each barrel. Half the batch received a five-week finish with the first ...

The barrel head and surrounding staves are made out of oak and it is relatively small in size which makes it easily transportable. The barrel was discovered in 1936 in a refuse pit at Bar Hill ...

and Margie) in 2010 that was finished by inserting 10 seared French oak staves into barrels of whiskey after being transferred to the distillery’s limestone cellar to mature in a more controlled ...

Steam, natural gas, boiling water, the burning of oak chips or some combination of these is used in the three-part heating process. The first application of heat (the warming stage) is called ...

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