Cherry Wood Aged Whiskey

Gentle baking spice and cherry flavors aren t enough to redeem the assault of wood.

Cherry wood aged whiskey.

In as little as a few weeks you can achieve some amazing results in both color and taste us. Place the ingredients into the mason jar or simply add the wood to the whiskey bottle. This one from square one brewery and distillery in saint louis seems to be the least cherrywood heavy of the three with only 25 cherry smoked malt. Aromas of lumber wood spice and butterscotch give way to pencil shavings toasted sawdust and cloying sweetness on the palate.

A world first this limited edition release is a single pot still irish whiskey aged in ex bourbon and sherry casks finished in wild cherry wood casks. Using pieces of charred wood inside your glass bottles can make this aging process exponentially faster. Woodford reserve distillery series products are available only at the distillery and select kentucky retailers. Adding complex flavours of fine wine capers and ginger spice.

Jj neukomm missouri malt whiskey. In many cases whiskey will be aged in casks formerly used for other types of potables such as port madeira or sauternes. Combine the wood and whiskey. It s a single barrel expression aged in missouri oak and bottled at 45 abv.

Then that same liquid was finished in four other barrels oloroso sherry barrel amontillado sherry barrel ruby port barrel and tawny port barrel. An average unaged whiskey works best here. Woodford reserve five wood began as standard bourbon aged in a standard oak barrel. Other names black cherry capulin cherry chisos wild cherry choke cherry edwards plateau cherry escarpment cherry gila choke cherry mountain black cherry new england mahogany plum rum cherry southwestern chokecherry whiskey.

The rest of the mash bill is unsmoked malted barley. Freshly cut cherry is often very pale but the wood oxidizes to its famously favorable rich brown red in time. Aged whiskey can be golden colored to caramel to dark brown. Opt for whiskey of proof 115 or higher if possible.

Aging whisky in a barrel can take time. Distilled in kentucky and aged in new charred oak barrels before undergoing the terrepure process. Made with disruptive pressure aging technology and finished on black cherry wood it had a nice added sweetness and was easily the best of all these speedy whiskeys i tried. Wood from the cherry tree is characterised by its porousness.