sorefingers23
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Does anyone know where I could find used 5 gallon whiskey barrel? And how much could I expect to pay for one.
Whiskey barrels pop up in this thread quite often. Just keep watching it.
I don't believe you will find a 5 gallon whiskey barrel any commercial Distillery will be using something much larger and 5 gallons is much too small to be economically for any good distillery.
Tuthilltown Spirits Barrels
They have 5 gallons with honey-comb inserts listed now, I have also seen 5 gallon barrels without the inserts (which is what I'd be more interested in, I think the honeycombs would just give wayyyyyy too much surface area). The non-honecomb variety were listed for about $120 I think.
I've never purchased anything from them so I can't vouch for them. I was going to but I've recently been promised a 5-gallon barrel from a small distillery here in Florida.
There is no such thing as a 5 gallon whiskey barrel. They are so large that you will basically need some kind of club / group brew to fill it. A bigger problem is that you must be careful where you buy such a barrel. The whiskey barrel must be very fresh, i.e., it must have had the whiskey recently removed. If the barrel dries out, the wood will shrink & leak and be useless for our purposes.
Mid-Country Malt Supply in St. Louis has been getting Jack Daniel barrels fresh from bottling, I forget for how much.....$225 sounds right (oak barrels this size aren't cheap, unless they've reached the end of their lifespan as barrels, been cut in half and used as planters). But that just takes you back to your original problem: how you gonna fill it?
There is no such thing as a 5 gallon whiskey barrel. They are so large that you will basically need some kind of club / group brew to fill it. A bigger problem is that you must be careful where you buy such a barrel. The whiskey barrel must be very fresh, i.e., it must have had the whiskey recently removed. If the barrel dries out, the wood will shrink & leak and be useless for our purposes.
Mid-Country Malt Supply in St. Louis has been getting Jack Daniel barrels fresh from bottling, I forget for how much.....$225 sounds right (oak barrels this size aren't cheap, unless they've reached the end of their lifespan as barrels, been cut in half and used as planters). But that just takes you back to your original problem: how you gonna fill it?
funny, ups delivered a 5-gallon whisky barrel to me just yesterday. I got one from the recent batch at adventures in homebrewing. They got them from balcones distillery in texas where it was used for their true blue whisky. It was recently emptied and hasn't shrunk. I'll be racking an imperial black ryepa into it this weekend. I need to find out how much time i have with it empty before it will start to dry out. If i can't keep it filled regularly enough i think i'll offer it up to some other local brewers to use in the interim.
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