Flavours of pineapple upside-down cake, honeyed orchard fruit, brown sugar, and cinnamon pastries can be enjoyed in this approachable single malt from The Glenlivet. For Caribbean Reserve, the clue is in the name, as the huge distillery took a portion of this whisky and finished in casks which previously held Caribbean rum. The distillery folks recommend making a malty twist on a Mai Tai with this, which sounds delicious. By Canadian law, [18] Canadian whiskies must "be aged in small wood for not less than three years", and "small wood" is defined as a wood barrel not exceeding 700 litres (150impgal; 180USgal) capacity. The Roman historian Pliny the Elder reports that cooperage in Europe originated with the Gauls in Alpine villages where they stored their beverages in wooden casks bound with hoops. [10] Pliny identified three different types of coopers: ordinary coopers, wine coopers and coopers who made large casks. [11] Large casks contain more and bigger staves and are correspondingly more difficulty to assemble. Roman coopers tended to be independent tradesmen, passing their skills on to their sons. The Greek geographer Strabo records that wooden pithoi (barrels) were lined with pitch to stop leakage and preserve the wine. [12] Uses today [ edit ] Beverage maturing [ edit ] Wine barrels in Napa Valley, California, USA This Mercier oak barrel with a capacity of 200,000 Champagne bottles was created for the 1889 world exposition in Paris. Opened Japanese Sake barrel for move.

International laws require any whisky bearing the label " Scotch" to be distilled and matured in Scotland for a minimum of three years and one day in oak casks. [17] Laws in several jurisdictions require that whiskey be aged in wooden barrels. The law in the United States requires that " straight whiskey" (with the exception of corn whiskey) must be stored for at least two years in new, charred oak containers. [16] Other forms of whiskey aged in used barrels cannot be called "straight". [16]Jamaican rum has a high ester count which give aromas and flavors across the spectrum, most particularly fruit flavors like grapes and berries, bananas, and pineapple. Jamaican producers learned early on that such naturally occurring compounds could be generated through longer and less-controlled fermentation, and by c reating conditions suitable for ester formation. Higher-ester Jamaican rums may ferment anywhere between one and three weeks, or even longer compared to other island rum producers which ferment for one to three days.

Toasted oak, green apple, tangy orange, burnt sugar and spiced mango chutney are detectable in this variation of Kura The Whisky blended malt whisky, a Japanese whisky that has enjoyed a finishing period in casks that previously held rum. cask". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)barrel". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Lew Bryson (22 December 2008). "Seen Through a Glass". lewbryson.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-03.

The tastes yielded by French and American species of oak are slightly different, with French oak being subtler, while American oak gives stronger aromas. [15] To retain the desired measure of oak influence, a winery will replace a certain percentage of its barrels every year, although this can vary from 5 to 100%. Some winemakers use "200% new oak", where the wine is put into new oak barrels twice during the aging process. Bulk wines are sometimes more cheaply flavored by soaking in oak chips or added commercial oak flavoring instead of being aged in a barrel because of the much lower cost. ASIL Insight: WTO Protections for Food Geographic Indications". Archived from the original on 14 August 2007 . Retrieved 2007-08-25. Water barrels are often used to collect the rainwater from dwellings (so that it may be used for irrigation or other purposes). This usage, known as rainwater harvesting, requires (besides a large rainwater barrel or water butt) adequate (waterproof) roof-covering and an adequate rain pipe.Some types of tequila are aged in oak barrels to mellow its flavor. "Reposado" tequila is aged for a period of two months to one year, "Añejo" tequila is aged for up to three years, and "Extra Añejo" tequila is aged for at least three years. Like with other spirits, longer aging results in a more pronounced flavor. Angels' share" is a term for the portion (share) of a wine or distilled spirit's volume that is lost to evaporation during aging in oak barrels. The ambient humidity tends to affect the composition of this share. Drier conditions tend to make the barrels evaporate more water, strengthening the spirit. However, in higher humidities, more alcohol than water will evaporate, therefore reducing the alcoholic strength of the product. This alcoholic evaporate encourages the growth of a darkly colored fungus, the angels' share fungus, Baudoinia compniacensis, which tends to appear on the exterior surfaces of most things in the immediate area. [25] [26] Water storage [ edit ] The modern US beer barrel is 31 US gallons (117.34777L), half a gallon less than the traditional wine barrel. (26 U.S.C. §5051 [33])

Modern barrels and casks can also be made of aluminum, stainless steel, and different types of plastic, such as HDPE. Barrels have a convex shape and bulge at their center, called bilge. This facilitates rolling a well-built wooden barrel on its side and allows the roller to change directions with little friction, compared to a cylinder. It also helps to distribute stress evenly in the material by making the container more curved [ citation needed]. Barrels have reinforced edges to enable safe displacement by rolling them at an angle (in addition to rolling on their sides as described).The tun was originally 256 gallons, which explains from where the quarter, 8 bushels or 64 (wine) gallons, comes. Main articles: Drum (container) and Barrel (unit) Blue 55-US gallon (44imp gal, 200L) barrel (drum)