How to age your whiskey at home in 4 easy steps | Mini Cask/Barrel Experiment
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In this video, we examine how to age whiskey in a mini barrel at home and which whiskey is best to use. We will follow some step-by-step instructions on what you should do when ageing your own whisky.
00:00 Intro to how to age whisky in a mini barrel
00:22 Species of oak & barrel used
00:35 Mini cask considerations & issues
01:21 Preparing the barrel with water
02:07 Seasoning the cask with sherry steps
04:02 Sponsorship Section
05:11 Seasoning results
05:48 Keeping the cask wet
06:28 Best whiskey for a mini barrel cask guide
08:11 When to check on the cask
09:08 Where/how to store the barrel
10:05 The results
11:18 Comparing it to the unaged whisky
12:29 My conclusion
12:49 Next steps with a mini barrel
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MY understanding is that the ideal cask strength concentration is 63% when ageing in an oak barrel.
Note to self, 'Buy Phil a funnel for Xmas'. 😉.
Glad you philled us in on the progress! Interesting results!
Nice additional information for me to digest as I go through this new process.
I always dreamed about doing that. You are the man! Thanks for uploading.
Great video Phil, your new branding would look great on your personal blend there ;)
Could of really done with watching this video couple of years ago when I done similar with a 1 litre cask. Mine survived about 8 refills including, white dog, port, cheap blended whisky, rum, 12yo single malt, sherry then a random blend. By the end the barrel was so spent it is now my bottle stand for my videos 😂Cheers!
Fun video. Enjoyed it a lot. Did want to mention offhand ... there are these simple devices called funnels. Very handy.
Nice video, I have wanted to try this for so long...
Loved this
Really interesting. Thanks.
Fun video and a nice choice of whisky to finish. I've been following a similar experiment over at Ralfy's, and your approach is much more practical, affordable & user-friendly.
Finding affordable cask strength malt is the tricky part, at least in the USA; so for those in the USA, finishing a super-affordable, high-proof bourbon like $30 Old Grand Dad 114 might be preferable to experimenting on something like Tomatin Cask Strength, which is probably the least expensive cask strength malt (if you can find it), at about $60+ ✌️
Great point. Thanks Chris!
This sounds like a good winter project for me. I live on the Isle of Man so we've got a lot of cold and damp weather heading our way!
I had a lot of fun with it! Just make sure you season the cask for as long as possible
Excellent guide. I have thought about making my own Kosher Sherry or Port matured whisky but its just so expensive here in Israel (at least twice what it would cost you), and with all the risks, I was reluctant to invest so much money into a project which could end up being a disaster. Your video has shown that with patience and thought, it can be done well.
Well done! You have really inspired me to try this.
Thanks Reb. Yeah then important part is too keep checking in it and season it for as long as possible.
Very cool Phil!
Thanks!
Hi Phil, great informative video! Would love to know what happened to the sherry that was used to season the barrels. Did u drink the sherry or used it for other things like cooking?
Any reply on what happens to the sherry?
Great video!
Thanks mate!
Nice one Phil I enjoyed that and in all fairness would have tried it say five years ago. I just amuse myself with my infinity bottle. where I use Glen Moray select as my base whisky, then the dregs of any bottle coming to an end, beats the hell out of SpringBank ;-) and I don't get ripped off on the price. 🙂
Looking forward to you're next post.
Hi Phil, greetings from ChiTown! It was great to see you in the Live Stream Scotch4Dummies chat last night/your afternoon!! New subscriber to your channel and Daaaang Son, it’s awesome! Well done and looking forward to catching up on all your videos! Cheers!🥃🥃
Thanks Bobby! Appreciate having you here!
Want to buy some new make destillate from St.Kilian here in Germany and age it like you did.Very cool video, thanks!
Hi Phil. What do you do with the cherry you used to season the cask besides re-using it to season the barrel again?
Thanks mate 👍
I love this video. I have a barrel myself now and I'm wondering what types of sherry pairs well. Like would you do a moscatel with a young whiskey like something from Colorado?
And does that same whiskey go well with a Cabernet or Merlot or Pinot noir cask barrel?
I would scrap the already finished whiskey and instead replace it with white dog ( whisky without barrel aging, some stores have it). After I would let it sit for maybe 3-6 months at most because the size. Also if you put it on something that shakes the barrel like a rocking chair will help it age faster at least I would think that would work but who knows.
Hey Phil. Nice project. Where did you purchace the barrel. I have been interested in trying it for my self fore a while. Do you know/recomend a web/shop in Europe?
Great video
Thanks!
Hi Phil, is there any video coming about new whisky aging?
if you have land with a pond or small lake you can leave the cask on a small dingy anchored in the middle of the pond or lake for as long as you want. the constant rocking will help age it faster
great effort love from India.
what I would also like to see is other whiskey over time you've made from this cask and why you chose the pairings of the sherry with that whiskey. (e.g. an amontillado with something from a young Mizunara cask to enhance the brightness and sweet flavor, idk, drink for thoughts I suppose.)
Hi Phil, interesting video, enjoyed watching it. Now probably the next whiskies (if not peaty)you put in are going to take on those smoky and peaty notes ? Slàinte Phil.
Yeah I’d be interested to see if they do.
Cool expirement
You can get barrels that are lined inside to drastically reduce aging or tanning which might be more suitable for mini barrels.
What would be your recommendation to age the wood for Bourbon? I bought a 5-liter barrel off of ebay and it said charred but it is lined. About as useful as a plastic bottle for aging.
Do you brew and distill your own as well or have I found this one because I am barrelling my spirits now?
Very interesting. So many factors! Is there any charring inside the barrel?
Thanks David. Yep, it has medium char
I´d like to phil a barrel like that with Glenfarclas 105 and leave it for years. Would that be possible? Are there any more steps in the process to make that work, since you feel you might have went a week to long with this one?
What’s the subreddit you were talking about?
should you not use a siphon when filling and bottling to prevent oxidation
It would be a really cool experiment with something like a white owl clear whiskey. See if you could actually make it good for anything but whiskey sours.
Could you do a good cheap whiskey video? I know you already made one. The reason I ask is you mentioned the Ileach 58% whisky. I've got the same one but with 40% making this one a lot cheaper almost by half where I live.
Now im curious of aging crown royal with a sherry cask. Only whiskey i ever thought was smooth and tasty. Then age it for when my kids turn 21
The whisky is already barrel aged right? How long would you age a New Make for then?
Any chance of an update on the experiment? How has the Archie Rose turned out?
What happens if you age a whiskey until nearly finished, and then transfer to a fresh barrel for additional aging? Would it be beneficial, or ruin it? I hav not found any information on this.
INFINITY BARELL ! BEST IDEA !
This idea really makes me wonder if the proper 12 could be fixed, run it through a charcoal filter to remove some of the ethanol flavor of it and then let some additional flavors develop, fixing its godawefulness….
Yeah I have a few bottles on my shelf I don’t like. Worth the risk I think
@@FirstPhilWhisky it’s not good… has lots of room to improve and you don’t lose much of it doesn’t turn out.
That's the Lincoln County Process. That's why Jack Daniels is the way it is, and why Kentucky bourbon is always better than Tennessee "bourbon".
Just dont buy it its loaded with fake shit
Do u recon u can age a whiskey in the cask for more than a year
Would it ruin the whiskey if you left it in for a couple years?
Doesn't wine spoil when opened? How can you be sure it's safe to leave wine in a barrel? I haven't found ANY information on putting bottled wine in a barrel.
Sherry (fortified) wine has a higher proof so doesn’t spoil as quickly, also Olorosso is already oxidised in the barrel. So doesn’t seem to be too much of an issue. I’m not sure how normal wine would go though, but people do do it. I would want to make sure it was nice and air tight though
hows the Sherry you aged in there?
In real Scotch Whisky, there is 0.0 cherry in the cask left.
the casks are taken apart in France and transported to Schotland in packets of barrel bits, and then assembled (and sometimes re-roasted) by the distillery.
Has you desktop a picture of the Dolomites in Italy??? Great Video as usual!
Sure is! I loved visiting there
hope this was a fulphilling experience for you.
😂
Interesting and insightful, but you didn't tell us what the Sherry tasted like after 6 months in there!!!!
Thanks! Oh yeah I actually shot a bit of me tasting the sherry, but it was making the video too long. I really liked the taste of the sherry, it made it really drinkable and added a lot of vanilla notes, which is uncommon in sherry as they don’t like too much wood influence, but I did.
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All that time and opportunities to plan, dude, buy a funnel!
😅 yeah my bad. Couldn’t find it on the day 😬
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Ha ha! Which day? I think there were at least 3 days in this video when your viewers were wishing for a funnel to be involved!
Really loving the channel! (new subscriber)
Wonder how it will be if you keep it strictly as a single malt? Mixing 2 different bottle becomes the blended territory one shall not pursue 😂
The only problem is those tiny barrels are insanely expensive to buy, cheaper to just buy some wood chips and a glass jar