Re-use your old casks for beer
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Re-use your old casks for beer
I had used my casks three times and was noticing that the flavor was much depleted by round 3 in my corn whiskey so I filled one (2 liter) with Populuxe Octoberfest beer and the other (1 liter) with Guinness and let them sit for about a week. Delicious! The beer is considerably darker than when it went in. I have since refilled the cask with whiskey and plan to cycle back and forth a few times between whiskey and various beers - finally I'll probably make barreled Manhattans as the final step before I am completely done with them. Note that the pressure from the octoberfest carbonation has pushed out some of this oaky-sweet tar. Maybe the casks are not as depleted as I thought but still, very tasty beer.
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Re: Re-use your old casks for beer
A weed-burner torch would make short work of recharring your barrel.
Re: Re-use your old casks for beer
It sure would. A 1 liter barrel is about 6" diameter with a half inch bung. A weed burner could char the outside in no time.
Distilling at 110f and 75 torr.
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