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 ...

An Ohio distillery is offering a singular experience that’s the boozy equivalent of watching paint dry. Hayner Distilling Co. has launched its Whiskey Webcam program in which subscribers can ...

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 ...

More than a dozen whiskey-filled oak barrels sit on racks inside Ironton Distillery’s production facility in Denver. Most of it won’t be ready to drink for a while — it needs to age for two ...