Buffalo Trace Wood

[MDH]

I am just curious, has anyone here worked with used Buffalo Trace wood before? How have your experiences been? Would you call it better or worse than other brands, or simply parallel in quality but different?

[MDH]

To shamelessly bump my own topic, I discovered that Kilchoman is using only Buffalo Trace wood for their Whisky. Excellent. I'm off to place an order...

[ShineonCrazyDiamond]

To shamelessly bump my own topic, I discovered that Kilchoman is using only Buffalo Trace wood for their Whisky. Excellent. I'm off to place an order...

I recently came into a buffalo trace barrel. I don't know what to do with it, I'm thinking cutting it up and using the staves.

Maybe with all that wood, I should start sending to members.

Right now, it's perfectly usable...

[MDH]

FYI, especially anyone in the south here, there is a guy selling disassembled Buffalo Trace barrels who can be contacted here:

http://www.staveshop.com/#!map/c16tg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Also, Buffalo Trace's single oak experiment:

http://www.singleoakproject.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[MDH]

To again shamelessly bump my own topic, I got around to reading the contents of that site, and found this:

"The winning bourbon from Barrel #80 was a rye recipe bourbon, entered into a barrel made from oak harvested from the bottom half of the tree with staves seasoned for 12 months. The grain size of the wood was considered average and the barrel received a number four char inside. The whiskey entered the barrel at 125 proof and was aged in a concrete floor warehouse. All of the Single Oak Project bourbons were aged for eight years. "

Considering they literally had thousands of experimental barrels and sent out samples to literally thousands of people, that's useful information.

I'm not certain we can afford to be picky in today's environment, either as hobby or craft distillers, but if we can get a "#4 char from the bottom of a tree seasoned for 12 months", we should go for it!