How do barrel finishes, such as those using sherry or port casks, impact the flavor and aroma of whiskey?

How do barrel finishes such as those using Sherry report, casts impact, the flavor and Aroma of whiskey a lot actually. So, here's the wonderful thing about Barrel finishes is it's a way we can take normal standard whiskey and actually add some flavor to it without it being an infused or a flavored Spirit. The wonderful thing is, depending on what region of whiskey you are looking at, whether it's bourbon or Scotch, the finish of that, whiskey usually comes on. On the finish on the palate as well. You can have a bourbon that is very cherry oak caramel forward and then finishes with a nice pork ask finish or a sweeter wine finish having that whiskey come to full maturation and then finish it off in some type of wine cask, really adds that extra depth of flavor that a lot of people seem to enjoy.

How do barrel finishes such as using Sherry or pork cast impact the flavor and Aroma of whiskey? So if you're going to age a whiskey, let's see, it American whiskey or Bourbon and a new charred. American Oak Barrel as is sort of the guylines for bourbon rules and then you want to put it into another calf that had Sherry in it. What the Sherry cast is going to do is it's going to add some of those Sherry notes. Some of that Sherry flavor, profile is stuck in the Oak, from its first use Use. So if you put your new distillate into that Barrel, it's going to extract some of those flavors out of the oak. Getting give you maybe some more of those dried fruit notes or something like that, that you might expect from Sherry. It can also be used to sort of round off some rougher edges coming from the original distillate. If it's a little bit too hot or a little bit too young when it comes out of its original cask,

So how to Barrel finishes such as those using Sharia Port, Cask impact the flavor and Aroma of whiskey? Well, I think there's two different ways to sort of answer this question at least, on my behalf which is are those casks wet casks or dry casks because that makes a difference. So, for me, and my approach to distillation what I want. If I'm saying using a pork ask, or a Sherry Cask in particular is I don't want the port or the Sherry to overwhelm the expression of the whiskey, what I would prefer is for it to work. Ken tandem with the whiskey and particular to enhance the Whiskey's Aroma flavor and mouthful. Those are really the main components of what I'm looking for when I'm using a finishing Barrel. On one of my Whiskey's, what I don't want is for you to taste my whiskey and taste only Port, right? I'll you should be able to pick up the fruity notes but they should be in balance with the grain notes and the wood maturation notes that are there as well. And all those positive, qualitative things that are included in that. And when the distiller is initially, fermenting distilling, and then maturing, and the primary Barrel that distillate, that is then going to go into that finishing Barrel. If I were to say open a bottle of whiskey, the said it was Port finished and I were to taste really nothing but the port, and maybe a little bit of Oak. I myself as a consumer would be disappointed. Now, is there a place for that? I'm sure there isn't plenty of people buy it but that's really what we're looking for. Is that blend and that balance qualitatively of both the whiskey itself with the original would match. Adoration, as well as the positive aspects that enhance the whiskey as it already exists and that finishing Barrel. So that you take a existing whiskey and elevate it to an entirely new level.