5 thoughts on “Things that make homebrewers wet their pants”

  1. 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. 🙂

  2. Kinda neat that they’re recouping their costs like that. $100 for a fresh spirit barrel, resell for $25.

  3. 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?

  4. 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 …)

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