Tips For Aging Liquor and Wine in Oak Barrels

hi every now and then someone will ask me why are my barrels upside down and they're not upside down all the time but occasionally they are when I'm making a video and the reason is is because I usually rotate them you see I I actually use one lit barrels you may be using two or three or five or larger barrels but sometimes I won't fill the barrel all the way up perhaps I only bought a fifth of a product maybe uh like this one here I think I'm aging um some Brandy in it and I only have a fifth of Brandy well it's a 1 lit Barrel so there's another 250 milliliters uh that have no product in there so basically my product my brand is coming up to about right here so what I'll do because I want the Brandy to soak into the wood evenly then what I'll do is either every day or every other day every few days it doesn't matter uh really I'd say no more no no less often than every 3 days just come in and just rotate it a quarter turn and if you do that on a regular basis then what'll happen is it will evenly uh soak into the barrel on all surfaces um and actually putting less than the full amount will actually help your liquor age quicker uh because the surface to ratio is actually much greater so that does give you a faster aging process but if you're not going to fill the barrel then just be sure that you're rotating it on a regular basis and you'll get uh even um um saturation into the barrel and a much better product so that's the reason keep the questions coming

Channel: Red Head Barrels

Views: 44,555

Keywords: Red Head, Oak Barrels, liquor aging, Crown Royal, Crown Reserve, bootleg, Rum, Tequila, Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch, Jack Daniels, Jameson, Captain Morgan, Canadian Club, Wild Turkey, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, wine, oak barrel tips, maintaining oak barrel

Id: 8UBPYm8NeQE

Length: 1min 57sec (117 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2013