Gday all,
My plans for a still are coming along, catching up with my best mate tonight and going over a design. We've decided to do it together.
Any who, reading about aging and getting depth of flavour had been fascinating and it's also got mwater wondering.
For an average Joe like myself, affording oak barrels to age liquor might be a bit on the pricey side. As I understand putting it in jars with a stave will colour and impart flavour but won't "age" it properly as it needs to breathe.
It's got me to wondering could you for example have your whiskey in a jar with staves and then cover with a cloth rather than a lid to enable it to breathe?
I imagine you'd lose a bit to evaporation but is this potentially a way to replicate some of the processes of an oak barrel without actually having one? Or are there things I haven't considered that make it a poor idea?
Cheers,
Sparrow