Macallan says the scotch has been vatted from three casks, all built from sherry seasoned Spanish oak.
At the time, it was the custom of winemakers to dry their casks and basins with arsenic.
Respected whisky writer Jim Murray said sulphur used to kill bacteria in wooden casks was marring Scotland's best-known export.
Our liquid is a blend of spirits that are aged two to five years, exclusively in American oak casks.
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Mr. Moreland said something about hand blending, heritage molasses, oak casks, or something like that, but I wasn't really following.
But the dry casks holding spent fuel rods across the United States have not evolved along with their increasingly radioactive contents.
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Older tequila takes on the flavor of the casks in which it's aged--usually old whiskey barrels, which impart a hint of vanilla.
Macallan mined its extensive stock of old casks and chose 37 of their best to bottle as part of a well-defined set.
The extra long maturation creates complexity, while additional aging in Bourbon casks and Port pipes gives it a rich fruit character and spice.
In addition to the careful distillation, it gets a minimum of 12 years aging, a healthy wait, almost entirely in Oloroso Sherry casks.
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Since 1947, the cooperage in Craigellachie has employed traditional methods and tools for creating exceptional casks from American oak, many of which are sent around the world.
One obvious winner is the Supreme Corq from America, devised after its inventor had seen plastic bungs being used to seal the casks in some of the classiest estates in France.
The NRC staff initially selected three of these recommendations --enlarging emergency evacuation zones, expanding potassium iodide distribution, and accelerating the transfer of spent fuel from pools to dry casks -- for further evaluation.
Stored in Spanish sherry casks since Wolrd War II and left to age for over six decades, the extravagant concoction boasts a diminished alcohol level of 42.5% just above the cut-off level for scotch classification.
If the U.S. finds a place for its nuclear waste to go, some fuel assemblies will have to be removed from casks and transferred to transportation packs, a dangerous enough task without the prospect of fuel rods ruptured or crumbling.
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It is the same whiskey without the addition of water, a standard step in the final production of nearly every spirit, which is done to bring the alcohol content down from the high level at which it leaves the aging casks.
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It does contain rums up to 30 years old, blended during aging using the same traditional solera fractional aging system used on ports, sherries, and madeiras (new liquid added to old regularly to create a blend of ages in pipes or casks).
Today, this result is emulated by either heating the wine to between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius after fermentation in stainless steel vats, or placing it in casks that sit on the top floor of wine cellars to bake in the heat for two years.
Integrated into the already distinctive nature of the Krug style--all base wines fermented in small oak casks, the finished wines aging for at least six years before release--it creates champagne as high-wire-act, a balanced tension between a dry, taut crispness and a mellow, juicy, full-flavored fruitiness.
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