“When making whisky, every drop and every cask has its very own fascination. I want to share this with my customers”,
Hans-Jürgen Filp.
Have you always dreamed of creating your very own whisky? The Singold experience distillery would like to help you and ensure that your dream becomes reality. But what do you need to bear in mind?
1. tightness of the drum
The most important thing is to check the tightness of the drum. To do this, it must be watered, which means that the barrel is filled with water. The drum is only sealed when no water leaks out and there are no more damp spots
2. filling with raw distillate
The raw distillate is distilled between 60 and 65 % vol. alc. The Scotch is usually bottled at 63.5% vol. from. At the Singold distillery, we offer you a choice of five different raw distillates for your barrel.
3. regular inspection
The maturation of the distillate should be checked every few weeks. Check the taste and color. The smaller the barrel, the larger the wood surface and therefore the faster the distillate matures.
4. finishes
If you have the feeling that the distillate is becoming too woody, you could remove it and store it temporarily in glass containers. Meanwhile, fill the barrel with port, sherry, red wine, white wine, beer, craft beer or rum and leave for a few months. The temporarily stored whisky distillate can then be poured back into the empty cask. The entire amount of whisky distillate or just part of it can be used. The advantage of only partial reuse lies in the variety of whiskies that result from multiple finishes.
5. livingcask
As this cask should give pleasure for many years, you can buy one or two liters of new raw distillate or finished whisky when the contents become less and less (through tasting and evaporation) and refill it.
Find out how you can become a whisky blender yourself and come into possession of your first own cask filled with raw distillate on the whisky cask page of the Singold adventure distillery.