Hey guys,
I just received a handful of oak scotch whiskey barrels that I plan to put an Imperial Porter in...
After reading some of the posts here, I was just going to go for it and drop the beer into them, but after looking at the barrels I'm a bit concerned.
The seller said they were 'wet', recently (within weeks) taken out of service. If a barrel is recently taken out of service should there actually be some whiskey left in them? When I pop the bung and have a look with a flashlight, there is no visible liquid in the barrels and they just look like dry charred wood...
Thus I'm paranoid of putting hard earned beer in them for it to just leak out in the cellar.
Any thoughts on how wet is wet are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff
I just received a handful of oak scotch whiskey barrels that I plan to put an Imperial Porter in...
After reading some of the posts here, I was just going to go for it and drop the beer into them, but after looking at the barrels I'm a bit concerned.
The seller said they were 'wet', recently (within weeks) taken out of service. If a barrel is recently taken out of service should there actually be some whiskey left in them? When I pop the bung and have a look with a flashlight, there is no visible liquid in the barrels and they just look like dry charred wood...
Thus I'm paranoid of putting hard earned beer in them for it to just leak out in the cellar.
Any thoughts on how wet is wet are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jeff
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