alt Hacker NewsIn Scotland, surely they're concerned with the future supply of whisky casks, not whiskey casks.
Also, AIUI, because bourbon has to be aged in new white oak barrels, you find a lot of former bourbon barrels aging distilled spirits all throughout the world, Scotland included.
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eszed • yesterday at 7:23 PM
<Maximum pedantry mode engaged> Either could be correct, because whisky casks begin as whiskey casks. It's wise to be aware of all the links in your supply chain!
wil421 • yesterday at 2:35 PM
A lot of times they use whisky casks. Lots of distilleries use bourbon casks because you can only use a cask once for bourbon.
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> whisky casks, not whiskey casks.
Interesting, I just looked up the details on this[0]. I’m surprised they didn’t hammer that home as well. I thought maybe you were just being pedantic at first, but that’s a good call out. I did make sure to say cask instead of barrel, as a barrel is just one size option for a cask.
They did talk about the rules of scotch vs bourbon and how some of that supply chain works for reuse.
[0] https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/about/about-whisky/...