Experts believe that up to 80 percent of a whiskey's flavor comes from the time it spends inside a barrel (although the ...

After a barrel is raised, mostly by hand, it travels through a series of steps, including being toasted and then charred on the inside, to prepare it to hold the new whiskey. The charring happens ...

So actually, the inside of the barrel is on fire ... beautifully as the liquid interacts with the wood. As those barrels are aging whiskey for four, five or six years, some savvy investors ...

The charring adds a layer of carbon on the inside of the barrel that filters the whiskey as it processes through the wood during aging. The process of finishing in a toasted barrel adds sweet wood ...

Pine Bluffs Distilling’s straight rye whiskey won a prestigious double-gold medal at an American Distilling Institute ...

Does Whiskey Actually Have to Be Aged ... and spice sugar in the wood towards the inside of the barrel,” says Don McGinnis, president of McGinnis Wood Product and member of the Missouri Forest ...

ASHEVILLE - It’s a world of pure imagination and natural, sustainably aged wood-crafted whiskey inside an unassuming ... wood chips instead of traditional barrel-aging. Rebecca Murphy, director ...