Newslink: A Celebration of Casks: Stranahan’s Cask Thief Puts the Focus on Finishing

There are a lot of variables when it comes to determining the way whiskey tastes, but the easiest to understand intuitively is probably the cask. Whiskey gets all of its color and much of its flavor and aroma from the cask it ages in, and the type of wood, char or toast level, and previous contents (if any) all impact the final product. But faced with a crowded aisle of whiskeys made with different grains, using different yeasts, distilled on different stills, and aged in different types of casks for varying lengths of time, it’s hard to tease out exactly which elements of the final product are due to the cask type and which are due to the legion of other factors at play.

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