Tar coming out of my aging barrel

[Rise-and-shine]

So I’ve been aging and AG whiskey in a 10 liter barrel. It’s been about a year and now the barrel is oozing out what looks and feels like tar. I tasted it thinking it may be sugar. I got a whiskey,wood and bitter. Any thoughts

[jonnys_spirit]

Do you have any pics of where the leak is from and how much?

How’s the whiskey taste?

Cheers,
J

[Rise-and-shine]

It’s on the lower half of what I would call the front and back.

[hypnopooper]

It's likely caramelized sugars and char from the wood. 1 year in a small new charred barrel might have a bit of a strong barrel flavor for some people's taste preferences, but as long as your monitoring flavor, I'm sure it'l be fine. Here is a barrel of mine, it's not first use, but you can see the tar like substance squeezing through the staves on the barrel head.

[Rise-and-shine]

I did taste it to be sure. It seems smooth. Wonder if it’s time to drain it

[Saltbush Bill]

he barrel is oozing out what looks and feels like tar. I tasted it thinking it may be sugar. I got a whiskey,wood and bitter. Any thoughts

Its a tiny seep / leak in my opinion, a couple of my barrels have done that it places at times, they usually gum them selves up and stop after a while.
The Alcohol/ ethanol evaporates off leaving any other compounds in the spirit behind, things like sugars , tannins from the oak, that is the gummy stuff.
Keep an eye on the level and top up if need be.

[HDNB]

scrape it off and throw it back in the barrel. thats flavour and colour there.