Comments on: Making barrels https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/#comment-1061921 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:41:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54913#comment-1061921 Chris-
Good stuff.

Federal law requires that all (US) whiskey be aged in newly made (Oak, if I’m recalling correctly) barrels. (there’s an interesting if not convoluted history behind all this.)

]]> By: Chris https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/#comment-1061917 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:41:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54913#comment-1061917 Wayne
On another note a local, very small distiller: McLaughlin Distillery (namesake of your cooper and namesake of mine) coopers his own barrels from white oak in upstate New York. He uses smaller barrels that require less aging since the liquid is able to meet with the barrel surface more readily. He does all his coopering by hand in a very small shop (est 20’x40’). The process seems to be the same but with hand tools.
Both are good videos and show interesting approaches to the fabrication problem

Thanks for posting

]]> By: Cchris https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/#comment-1061915 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:19:47 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54913#comment-1061915 Beware altercations with a cooper…. they have a Hell of a right

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/#comment-1061901 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:11:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54913#comment-1061901 Anyone named “Cooper”, here’s what one of your ancestors did for a living.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/making-barrels/#comment-1061899 Fri, 30 Nov 2018 01:55:18 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54913#comment-1061899 related–
The Bourbon Barrel –
“Kelvin Cooperage”
Louisville Kentucky
https://youtu.be/fF38BxIqxL0
3:53

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