Whisky Forum - whiskey-lab ...what about it?

Guly88 · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2015 Posts: 5

Hi everybody, I'm writing here 'cause I'm kind of a rookie about whisky and I'd like to have an expert opinion about a kickstarter project that I have found and that intrigues me

http://kck.st/1LQ4ptm

what do you think about?

thanks =)

opelfruit · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:38 pm Post subject:

Link isn't working I'm afraid.
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Guly88 · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2015 Posts: 5

ups '^^ now it should work, thanks! =)

dramblersanonymous · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:48 pm Post subject:

Not for me! They can't even spell Whisky properly... Laughing

You can acquire a charred would chip from a barrel pretty easily and do some aging experiments for little to no money. Work out the surface area of the wood, blah blah. Quite interesting.

Guly88 · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2015 Posts: 5

Kray · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:40 pm Post subject:

A kickstarter project like this could do itself a big favour by sending out one or two whisky labs to known trusted whisky reviewers to review the whisky lab kit, if it was reviewed as being any good they would get more than enough backers. As it stands I would say it is interesting but I wouldn't risk any money to find out if it works.

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opelfruit · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:16 pm Post subject:

They can spell it 'whiskey' if they like. In fact they are correct as they are in America.....

The thing sounds feasible actually, from a technical and scientific point of view, but it's not designed to accelerate the aging process so your going to have to wait 3 years (more likely longer) before you get decent effects.....If I buy one I don't want to wait 10 years for an experiment, I'll just buy some aged whisky from a company that has already done the legwork; a distillery.
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dramblersanonymous · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:21 pm Post subject:

Archer · Master Of Malts Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 1521

There is enough variety of whisky out there to keep me happy so I have no reason to try to make my own.

dramblersanonymous · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:06 pm Post subject:

I think part of the problem is that you'll be given fresh oak. If you've got some distillate at 80% it might be interesting to taste over time, but you'll end up with something sweet pretty quickly. Lower alcohol stuff probably wouldn't do well at all in a fresh oak cask (have you ever tried Innes and Gunn beer?). Lots of sugars. So if you wanted to buy a young whisky, I think you'd break it pretty quickly and kill a lot of the interesting subtleties. If you bought something young and american (whisk'e'y - of course), it might work a little better.

Wine - no thanks, don't think it would be that nice. Whisky - probably do more harm than good. Whiskey (american) could be interesting if very young or distillate. Our different climate would probably have more of an effect - especially if your little barrel was in the garage. Beer - give it a go. Now, once it's been done once, can you change the wood? Re-char it? Etc?

If you really want to do an experiment, go to master of malt and search for 'barrel'. You can buy something there. Just without the fancy nameplate and glass bubble. Or get some charred oak chips from an old barrel.