A key part of the process of making bourbon is using new oak, and conventionally, with Scotch whisky, it's almost always oak that's been used for another aging purpose before, so they sometimes use ex-bourbon casks, ex-sherry casks, ex-cognac casks, ex-wine casks, ex-rum casks.
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How long it stays in the casks, and what the casks held before — like bourbon, wine, sherry, etc.
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The transportation casks are designed so robustly that what we've done with past experiments here at Sandia, where we have driven locomotives into these casks — we've driven trucks into these casks — and they don't break.
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The Pride 1974 is a vatting — or marrying — of whiskies matured in two different casks, one in American oak casks that formerly held bourbon, the other in ex-Spanish casks that used to hold Oloroso sherry.
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For example, casks which were used to store port wine lend spirits a fruitier and sweeter ending, while rum casks tend to produce soft, sweeter results with vanilla tones and toasted wood notes.
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And they alone supervise the slow ageing in oak casks.
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The NNR said Eskom only had permission to store four dry casks at Koeberg and that the power utility had applied for a licence change request justifying the use of 14 additional dry storage casks.
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Casks filled with wine and lees were scattered around the village.
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"We have around 350,000 casks in 50 warehouses," Mr. Cordier said.
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That's why distillers sometimes age their Scotches in fortified-wine casks.
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This wine club has no casks, or walls, to worry about.
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Bowmore is known for its high-end releases, and Amazon is selling a 19-year-old whisky aged entirely in red wine casks (casks that hold 225 liters) from Chateau Legrange, a red wine from Bordeaux.
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Two identical casks might mature in completely different ways, which presents challenges.
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Thus you have some Scotch makers using old sherry or bourbon casks.
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It involves blending plutonium with an inert material and storing it in casks.
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In 2017, only 68 casks were produced, creating 13,00 bottles available for purchase.
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The fine blend spent those years developing its character in mizunara and white oak casks.
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To reduce costs, rods are packed into vaults instead of dry storage casks, scientists wrote.
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That fuel is stored in casks until it can be safely removed from the site.
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Other distilleries, nodding to Australia's robust wine industry, age their whiskey in used wine casks.
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For example, we sold casks of whisky to other countries because we needed the cash.
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We pass the distillery's re-charring area where the insides of casks are set ablaze.
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Mr. Akuto, though, acquired the 226 casks in inventory and started his own company, Venture Whisky.
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Until the Teelings started experimenting, the formula for traditional Irish whiskey was pretty straightforward: the spirit must be distilled and aged on the island of Ireland, and it must be aged for a minimum of three years in wooden casks (commonly ex-bourbon or ex-sherry casks).
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Of late, admittedly, a fashion has arisen for the casking of gin, and I have recently sampled Hibernation, a Welsh gin that bides its time in white-port casks, and PX Cask Gin, manufactured by Greensand Ridge, in Kent, and aged in casks of Pedro Ximenez.
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Winemakers stretch them over the necks of large glass bottles, which they use instead of oak casks.
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Sustained by only a few casks of water and wine, they resorted to suicide, murder and cannibalism.
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His piece also weaves in traditional Spanish folk music, an homage to the ex-sherry casks used.
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As part of the distillation process, whiskey first spends time — typically years — sitting in charred wooden casks.
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They might have taken off their Mohawk disguises, put down the tea casks and gone back home.
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Currently the waste is stored at nuclear power plants and other sites in pools and in casks.
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His three-year-old whiskies are being matured in casks made of wood other than the prescribed oak.
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We touch and smell malted barley, peer into charred casks, gaze at the massive stills imported from Scotland.
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The malt whisky was distilled in 1926 and aged 60 years in sherry casks, then was released in 1986.
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So we know the containers, also known as casks, that the spent nuclear fuel travels in are pretty tough.
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The centerpiece of the Reserve has to be the giant copper-clad casks in the middle of the building.
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Distilled from corn and aged in used, lightly charred bourbon casks, it flits with buttery sweetness on the palate.
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Inside, there are 303 copper pot stills, space for 300,000 maturing casks and a library of nearly 1,000 bottles.
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It's part of the "STR" process: Casks get shaved, toasted, and charred to recondition them, removing any unwanted flavors.
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He also used casks from Syrah Amador, Old Vine Zinfandel, and Madeira wines and a few different Stranahan expressions.
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Johnnie Walker Blue Label is put together using a selection of rare casks from the Speyside and Highland distilleries.
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They feature specialty coffees and teas, on-premise roasters and massive coffee casks where freshly roasted beans are held.
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Refurbishing those barrels is a huge business, heavily dependent on casks being shipped across the Atlantic from Kentucky and Tennessee.
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"If [casks] stay here, they'll stay here forever," Shimkus said from the Byron Generating Station, about 100 miles from Chicago.
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They experimented with a range of casks—like white Burgundy, rum, cognac, and calvados—to challenge what had been done previously.
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It's called "21926" because the malt whiskey was distilled in 212, aged 260 years (in sherry casks) then released in 2000.
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However, he accepted the challenge from his team to make a rare whisky by exploring some of the oldest aging casks.
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The same concern motivates Allison Parc, the owner of Brenne, a French single malt whiskey aged partly in used Cognac casks.
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Tepco must pluck the brittle and potentially damaged assemblies from a flooded compartment on the reactor site that is 18 metres (60 feet) above ground level and place them in containment casks, raise the casks from the pool and place them on a truck on the ground to transport them to a final pool of water for storage.
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Tepco must pluck the brittle and potentially damaged assemblies from a flooded compartment on the reactor site that is 18 meters (60 feet) above ground level and place them in containment casks, raise the casks from the pool and place them on a truck on the ground to transport them to a final pool of water for storage.
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The distilled products either end up bottled or barrel-aged (in a range different casks, like old Woodford Reserve barrels) to perfection.
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This was later confirmed by filling up casks of the wine in France and leaving them on both sides of the border.
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While the Shanghai and Seattle locations have copper casks, Milan's is bronze, a material that is prominent in Milan design and architecture.
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In 2012, a Nukem Technologies-led consortium built a dry spent fuel storage facility at Kozloduy that stored radioactive waste in dry casks.
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Over two levels, the sake-making process from centuries past is illustrated, from rice preparation to fermentation to storage in giant wooden casks.
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Mr. Cordier said we would first go to the river's right bank to see the warehouses where the eau-de-vie casks age.
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After Brexit, a French producer could potentially import casks of spirits from Scotland, bottle it in France and call it single-malt Scotch.
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"Of the 503,000 casks we have here, Budgie will have been involved in all the spirit made since October 1989," he told me.
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In the British Navy, the shipboard gin supplies traditionally included casks, usually from sherry-making, that held high-proof gin reserved for officers.
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This year, only 77 wooden casks were brewed and a single bottle has a suggested retail price of $210, according to a press release.
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Brunello is aged longer, for one thing, four years before it can be released, of which a minimum of two must be in casks.
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The casks, however, are projected to last only 50 years before beginning to leak, and so would need to be buried permanently deep underground.
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Troops who worked as coopers built and repaired the wooden buckets, barrels, casks and kegs used to pack, store and ship supplies and equipment.
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The mixture is then aged for a year in oak casks—stored in darkness and total silence—so that the aromatic components can blend correctly.
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Available in the United States, its casks are famously carried aboard ships that cross the Equator twice before it is sold, to mellow the spirit.
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Donegal—that green archaism— and Manhattan in the nineteen-thirties, polyglot dynamo, all that was great about the twentieth century fermenting in its democratic casks.
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Often aged in bourbon or tequila casks and priced at more than $150 an ounce, it is processed from the heirloom Nacional variety of cacao.
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This dark and masculine chamber has eight full casks with spouts, exposed beams and a stone wall, plus a central seating area with four comfortable armchairs.
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Single-malt scotch distillers commonly fill their distillate in ex-bourbon or ex-sherry casks, with each type contributing different attributes to the whisky over time.
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The least risky option is to store spent fuel rods securely in dry casks at or near the site of generation, and not to transport them.
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The warehouse was a spectacle of hundreds of casks, each labeled with a storage date and the name of the distiller, lined up in long aisles.
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A doorway to the side of the room led to the 19th-century cellars storing a large portion of Louis Royer's 20,000 eau-de-vie casks.
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Or when the "culinary" offerings are peat-smoked oysters, fresh nasturtium leaves, haunch of venison, and whisky that's been mellowed in oak casks for eight years.
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Currently, spent nuclear fuel, which can be deadly if left unshielded, is stored at reactors across the country, first in cooling ponds and then in thick casks.
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For this room the custom built-ins (whiskey casks and more) make it unique, as does the stone wall, but brick veneer is a less-expensive option.
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This is bad, and could bring down the law on everyone, including Madame Jeanne, who happens to be hiding a large quantity of casks in her basement.
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The Cerasuolo Classico, fermented and aged in concrete tanks and large casks of Slavonian oak, is lovely and fresh, over time gaining flavors of herbs and tobacco.
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In Norway, where the domestic market is robust, aquavits are a premium liquor, traditionally aged in sherry casks and enjoyed after dinner like a Cognac or Scotch.
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But, on closer inspection, the bar's shelves are stocked with bottles, casks, and mason jars of baijiu —high-proof Chinese spirits notorious for their umami-heavy funk.
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The winery was one of the first to use new French oak casks for aging and to adopt the then-novel practice of vintage-dating its varietal wines.
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Starbucks is tackling that problem with its elaborate Roasteries, massive stores that include alcohol bars, on-premise coffee roasters and casks, as well as special, pricey menu items.
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Additionally, the highly irradiated air around the site means all the cranes moving the transportation casks carrying the rods, which weigh abut 45 tonnes, must be operated remotely.
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Some argue that semi-cooled fuel could be kept in cement dry-storage casks, as much is in America, for generations until technologies are developed to handle it.
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Diehl's immediate reaction after running around with Lumsden among the stills and the casks was to document the evolution of a whisky by taking us on its journey.
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The wines — which age in various vessels, including small barrels, large casks, cement eggs and ceramic amphorae — have a vibrant life force that is felt rather than tasted.
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Nuclear waste is compact — America's total from 60 years would fit in a Walmart — and is safely stored in concrete casks and pools, becoming less radioactive over time.
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It's now scheduled to be dismantled, but even when that happens, more than 1,700 tons of spent nuclear fuel will remain — interred in enormous concrete casks behind a seawall.
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In the corner of the suite is the Cask of Distinction: "Special consumers who come here very much value the unique one-off nature of these casks," Fischer said.
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He survived and went home with a condolence prize of casks of sweet Canarian wine, for which the British developed a taste that has not abated to this day.
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CAMRA traditionally has limited its advocacy to brewers and pubs producing and selling real ale—the traditional British "bitter" ale that is conditioned in casks instead of big tanks.
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The result is a honey-colored blend of single malt and grain whiskies aged for five years, first in Kentucky bourbon casks, then in small new American oak barrels.
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There were, for instance, five pairs of pot stills in the distillation room and about a million casks of whiskey, including a Cádiz sherry cask dating back to 2000.
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"I tried to paint a tonal narrative of how the whisky casks came together by incorporating two folk musical traditions, one from Kentucky and the other from Scotland," he says.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Vampires, fountains of blood, giantesses, dancing serpents, and "casks of hatred" populate Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, a collection of poems from 1857.
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Another unique choice is that they plan on aging their bourbon entirely in 132-gallon puncheon casks, two and a half times larger than the American standard 53-gallon barrel.
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For now, it's spread out in temporary storage casks at about 70 sites across the country, but the Trump administration is eyeing a site in Nevada as a permanent solution.
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"These casks are presently stored empty on the Koeberg site while Eskom is in the process of applying for a usage licence from the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR)," Eskom said.
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If I'd been assembling my own Scotch whisky, I would have been away for three years; that is how long, by law, whisky has to sit and ruminate in casks.
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To finance the distillery through its initial years, 100 first-year casks containing 70 liters of the new spirit are being sold, with only 13 remaining, each costing about $2,700.
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With polished concrete floors, the tasting room has a modern industrial feel with fun, understated design touches such as booths and circular windows that nod to the shape of whiskey casks.
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These include surprise inspections of nuclear plants and storage of spent uranium fuel in dry casks, rather than high up in reactor buildings as is mostly the case in Japan now.
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The extreme beers, which have been aging in wooden bourbon casks, are combined in Aquavid, Carcavelos, and ruby port barrels, then brewers add their own special touches unique to each year.
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It's a mixed bottle of hand-selected casks of two-year-old Texas Bourbon, a three or four-year-old Tennessee whiskey and a 10 or 11-year-old Tennessee whiskey.
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Kobe Steel is Asia's No.1 manufacturer of semiconductor leadframes, the base material for chips, and one the world's top makers of the large forged casks used to store spent nuclear fuel.
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When the dispute was eventually settled, everyone celebrated the truce by having an absolute rager of a bacchanal, during which casks of wine were ripped open for everyone to roll around in.
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In 2014, the NRC found the chance of a disaster caused by leaving radioactive waste in storage pools was too remote to warrant the cost of moving it to safer dry casks.
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But there are risks: The whisky might not be that great in the first place or the distillery might not have been able to afford the best casks to age the whisky.
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Brewed using American Cascade, Centennial and Willamette hops, along with English Maris Otter malt, it will be available in casks in the UK and a 500ml bottled version later in the year.
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From choice of oak to the careful selection of the special casks that will one day become decades-old bottles of The Balvenie, Stewart has mastered the art of playing the long game.
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John Campbell, the distiller, used Madeira casks for the 2016 edition, giving the typically smoky Scotch hints of spice, orange and hazelnuts: Laphroaig Cairdeas 2016 Madeira Cask, $74.98, on sale for $59.99, internetwines.
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But two decades later, 1,1203 spent-fuel rods remain, stored in 60 steel canisters that are themselves encased in concrete, as well as 400 tons of casks containing radioactive steel from the reactor.
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The annual ritual harkens back to an era when cidermakers would invite clients, perhaps innkeepers, restaurateurs or the famed gastronomic societies of San Sebastián, to taste and choose which casks they wanted to purchase.
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For Teeling founders, brothers Jack and Stephen Teeling, poitin offers whiskey drinkers a chance to taste the spirit straight from the still so they can understand the flavor imparted by the various casks Teeling uses.
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Diehl began the composition there on a Steinway grand piano that was carefully hauled off a truck and into a whisky warehouse on the distillery grounds, surrounded by hundreds of old aging casks for inspiration.
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Kentucky bourbon distilled by Fred Noe, a seventh-generation master distiller at Jim Beam, includes some bourbon aged in wine and sherry casks, a technique more typical of the Scottish Highlands than of Bluegrass Country.
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But over time, certain shared characteristics emerged that set these distilleries apart from Scottish traditions, like using brewer's malt instead of distiller's malt, and aging in smaller casks, both of which affect the whiskey's flavor.
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The United States produces some 2,000 metric tons of nuclear waste each year, which is currently stored in pools or in steel casks at the nation's roughly 60 commercial nuclear power plants across 30 states.
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It survived the Irish potato famine, gained a massive following in Scotland, and was one of the first distilleries to use imported sherry-seasoned casks from Cadiz, which is now considered common practice in whiskey-making.
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In years when the weather leading up to the harvest is mild and sunny, Hine's cellar master, Eric Forget, may set aside some Grande Champagne eaux-de-vie casks to be aged into single vintage Cognacs.
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Installations like La Hague in France or Sellafield in Britain - where spent fuel from dozens of reactors is stored in pools before it is reprocessed or put in casks for dry storage - pose a particular worry.
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The utility shut the plant, which is located north of San Diego, in 2012 and has been building a bunker in which spent fuel can be stored in steel casks after it is removed from cooling pools.
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Until then, storage facilities at nuclear power plants would be expanded through the use of dry storage, sealed casks that can hold spent fuel once it has been cooled in deep pools, freeing up space in the pools.
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From duck decoys and hood ornaments to limited-edition sneakers and casks of whiskey, a host of other offbeat collectibles attract the eye of investors who crave tangible assets they can appreciate and that ... well, appreciate in value.
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They feasted abundantly on netted fish and giant clams dug from the Pacific; every Saturday night, Gavin would roll out barrels of ale and casks of wine made from local grapes and honey, and they'd have a dance.
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CAPE TOWN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Spent fuel storage at South Africa's Koeberg nuclear plant will reach full capacity by April as state power utility Eskom awaits regulatory approval for new dry storage casks, the company said on Monday.
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More likely, it could irradiate a tract of land or pollute waterways if there's a crash or a spill, an eventuality that shippers prepare for by testing the casks for a nine-metre drop and being submerged in water.
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He makes everything in small batches with an obsessive attention to detail, and adds some interesting twists, like a fermentation tank called a washback made of mizunara oak, a wood indigenous to Japan that is typically used for casks.
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Roasteries — large, lavish Starbucks stores that feature specialty coffees and teas, on-premise roasters and massive coffee casks where freshly roasted beans are held — are a way to "celebrate the romance of coffee," CEO Kevin Johnson told CNN Business.
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Every year at the Laphroaig distillery on the island of Islay, Scotland, the pale amber Scotch is first smoothed in bourbon casks and then aged in a different wood barrel for a limited-edition spirit called Cairdeas, meaning friendship.
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The Dalmore L'Anima is a single malt created from three unique assemblages (blended by The Dalmore master distiller Richard Paterson) using some of the distillery's rarest casks that previously held 40 year old Pedro Ximenez sherry and Graham's Vintage Port Pipes.
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Starting as early as this month, trucks loaded with reinforced casks containing the most dangerous material in the world—highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium—will begin moving across Canada and into the US, potentially passing through various communities along the way.
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There was no mute, Not even Cootie's, that could set the measure Of confidently opened casks of treasure Lighting the cave, and turning the blue suit Of tactful mourning to a pirate kit: The lawlessness, the skipping lilt of it.
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And to spread the word, the distillery — which was founded in 1824 and is famous for aging its whisky in sherry casks — is setting up a virtual reality view of the new facility in Grand Central Terminal for a few days.
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For another couple of euros, you can also sample versions finished in Madeira, Marsala or Port casks, though the real standout is the 12-year-old Slyrs single malt, offering a bouquet of biscuity malt and finishing with a pronounced minerality.
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No one, he said, knows what consumers will want in 10 or 20 years, and even if he or she did, the whiskey now aging will change depending on the weather, the casks and other factors that are difficult to control.
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After heading to the print shop for another kind of reunion (there's a fun throwback to Jamie thinking sex can only be done doggy-style), Ian ends up burning the whole place down while fighting off an intruder looking for the liquor casks.
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Ichiro Akuto, grandson of Isouji Akuto — a 19th generation descendant of sake brewers and whiskey producers who founded the distillery in 1941 — preserved 4 premium whisky casks before the distiller shut down, and bottled each one for release between 2005 to 2014.
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That is a key step in dealing with all the nuclear waste across the complex, from millions of gallons of radioactive liquids in potentially explosive tanks to tons of plutonium oxide sitting in shipping casks that were not designed to store it.
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And as we walked in the dank air between big barrels of aging syrah, I noticed that the ceramic casks were all covered with chalk drawings of butterflies, stars and rainbows: the blissful, pastel-colored world of a 6-year-old girl.
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In 2008, Mr. Jago, Mr. Espey and Peter Fleck, another Gilbeys colleague, formed the Last Drop Distillers, which discovers casks of fine spirits left over in Scotland, France, Portugal and the United States and then packages and sells the product to connoisseurs.
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The supermodel, 31, opened up to PEOPLE about her mixed-race heritage at the launch of Dewar's Caribbean Smooth, an 8-year-old double-aged Scotch finished in Caribbean rum casks, at Gitano Garden of Love in N.Y.C's Soho neighborhood on Wednesday night.
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She is worse than the father he murdered (Charles Dance), worse than Cersei, who only blew up one single sept, and even worse than Dany's own father, King Aerys (David Rintoul), who never got the chance to set off the casks of wildfire he commissioned.
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Many come in beautiful, unusual bottles, and the watchword is variety: wild ales, farmhouse ales, sour browns, barley wine, eisbocks, doppelbocks, imperial stouts, and ales aged in port wine casks, in maple syrup barrels, in clay pots buried in the earth, in just about anything.
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Instead, spent fuel rods are sitting at 95 nuclear plants around the country in either "fuel pools," where the waste cools down for a few years after the rods finish producing energy, or in special steel-and-concrete casks that sit above ground like nuclear garbage cans.
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Mr. Jago was a spirits maven for more than a half-century, reinvigorating old drinks, devising new ones and, in his final years, hunting down casks of forgotten yet still exquisite whiskey in cellars and warehouses in Scotland and other countries to sell in expensive limited editions.
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It said it was unclear what type of material was being transported, but the relatively small size and number of casks on the railcars suggested outbound shipment of small quantities of irradiated liquid or solid waste, contaminated equipment, or movement of fissile material to facilities outside Yongbyon.
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And with most of that poitín being put into casks to be sold as whiskey for many years to come, the poitín going into barrels can be seen as a victory over big business and centuries of tradition, and a sign that Teeling's unconventional methods are paying off.
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The demand has also depleted the casks in distilleries' warehouses from Japan to Scotland as they've raced to release greater numbers, leaving some brands to produce more no-age-statement bottles that creatively blend a mix of liquid from barrels that have been aged for various periods of time.
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And while automation has slightly reduced the need for as much hands-on labor, there's no way to accelerate production, which consists of grinding malted barley into grist, cooking it in scorching water, adding yeast to ferment the mixture into a beer, distilling it to concentrate the alcohol and letting it rest in oak casks for up to several decades.
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In May 2016, after more than a decade of producing funky flavors like "Fuck Art Let's Dance on Plums" (a Belgian-style tripel aged in Bordeaux barrels with plums) and "Liquid Confidential" (an imperial stout brewed with ancho, guajillo and chipotle chilies, then barrel-aged in rum casks) in small batches, the duo are opening BRUS, their very own brewpub, restaurant, and bar in Copenhagen's buzzy Nørrebro neighborhood.
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