Things that make homebrewers wet their pants
You can buy used spirit barrels from Port Brewing (aka The Lost Abbey).
Cheap. Until you try to figure out how to get one home. Particularly when home is Vermont or Florida or another place not San Diego.
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Beer culture, Beers of conviction.
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:26 am
A friend of mine here in Germany told me an old friend of his, whose family runs a small distillery, has a load of 20 litre casks. I didn’t quite wet my pants, but it got the single brain cell I have bouncing around a bit.
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Kinda neat that they’re recouping their costs like that. $100 for a fresh spirit barrel, resell for $25.
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Lots of things you can do with used barrels:
http://www.brewedforthought.com/?p=1991
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:46 pm
SWISH! When I was a lad in NS we got the old rum barrels, threw in some hot water and rolled them about for a few days – 30% on the first roll. The smoothest black rum ever and it were called swish.
I wonder if you could coax the same short term thing by loading the barrel with your own brew?
February 26th, 2010 at 6:11 am
Alan, as I’ve probably said before, that’s called “grogging” in the UK and is strictly illegal. It’s why Fuller’s has to water down its whisky-cask-aged beer. (Scottish brewers, however, are allowed to get away with it …)