I was (and mostly still am) learning as I go when it comes to barrel aging. We started with barrels about a year ago, and having no prior experience with them, its been a trial and error to get to know 'that side' of the brewery. We finally have a decent program up and running, and have had good success with many beers. My biggest frustration however comes from anything I age in bourbon barrels. I've got a few different styles of beers in bourbon barrels, yet none of them have developed that nose or flavor I associate with bourbon barrel beers. That distinctive sweet, candy like bourbon nose that pretty much every bba beer I've had has. I thought I needed to just keep let them going to get that better flavor, but after 10 months now it hasn't improved. All I get is more of a bitter, alcoholicic-bourbon smell and taste. FWIW, I've gotten all my barrels from Rocky Mountain, and they've been from a few different distilleries.
Any help or pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Any help or pointers or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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