I have been aging spirits at home for three years now and am on my second barrel. Currently, I’m using a 1.25 liter new-charred oak cask. It has a level-4 ‘alligator’ char.[1] A typical bourbon barrel is about 55 gallons. Surface area plays an important role in maturation. The larger the vessel, the more time…
The only thing better than drinking great spirits is sharing great spirits with close friends. So, this post will explore creative ways to share one-of-a-kind offerings that are unavailable anywhere else on the planet – without having to shell out a fortune for a rare bottling. In the past, Bodacious Booze has written about specialty cocktail…
Who better to send to an event that discusses the processes of whisky maturation in micro-gravity than Thomas Fauchez. Thomas is a french PhD physicist working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a non-professional Scotch whisky fan since 2010 and a member of the “Clan des grands malt,” the second biggest whisky club in France with several hundreds…