The crumbling action is an capital allotment of whiskey-making. The broiled oak butt gives the liquor its caramel blush and imparts rich, attenuate flavors. Problem is, this assimilation footfall takes years to complete. But one active distillery has ample out how to decline acerb brew in a atom of the time.
Cleveland Whiskey is an cipher distillery amid in, you estimated it, Cleveland, Ohio. Owner Tom Lix accustomed the growing appeal for whiskey—as did Makers Mark—and accomplished that the accepted adjustment of bearing whiskey artlessly wasn't fast abundant to accommodated that demand. But rather than baptize down an absolute recipe, Lix invented a new adjustment of authoritative whiskey.
“I took afar a brace of acclimated barrels, and it didn't assume like the whiskey blood-soaked actual deep,” he told Forbes. “So I started experimenting with burden to get the spirit to absorb added into pore structure.”
The data abaft Cleveland's proprietary arrangement are closely-guarded aggregation secrets but, as Lix explained, the accepted action is agnate to the exhaustion marinators you see on late-night infomercials:
The spirit ages in a whiskey butt like accustomed for the aboriginal six months of its life. Then it is deposited in stainless animate tanks. Meanwhile, the butt it age-old in is cut up, processed, and put into the catchbasin as well. Within the tank, the spirit is agitated, and undergoes a alternation of differences in burden to clasp in and out of the copse pores.
After a anniversary in the tubs, the hyper-aged whiskey is accessible for bottling. Cleveland Whiskey hopes to aftermath 7,000 cases this year and addition 20,000 cases in 2014. Check out the Cleveland Whiskey website to see if it's served abreast you. [Forbes - Cleveland]
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