Female: Now you have another interesting product which are these barrels that I see. Can you tell me more about those? When we can grab one and…
Male: Those are whiskey worts, and this is something we came up with last year for the Christmas season. We actually sold this kit, it’s a big kit and we have a bottle of scotch with it, and what you do is you take it into an American oak cask and it’s brand new and has a medium char on it, but it is a real cask there’s no glue in it, there's no nothing on that nature, it's quite unique. You add a whiskey to it. Usually it's a very young whiskey it looks very light and it ages incredibly quickly, so about four weeks, that’s what you get.
Female: Wow, really four weeks.
Male: Four weeks, and the reason for that is because you have such a small cask, you have a large surface area that the whiskey can be turned up against versus huge 200 liter cask. So this year we have a lot o people that were saying can we just buy the cask. We just want the cask, we want to age our own whiskey. We don’t want your whiskey, we want to try something different unique and a blend, you know, some young bottle whiskeys and try it that way. They want to finish them in cork first or cherry and do their own finishing on them, so we came out with just the cask.
Female: So people really taking a risky personally in this case.
Male: Yes.
Female: This is your chance to bring it home and make it your own, your own version.
Male: Make it your own, and the most interesting part of making whiskey is the aging process. That’s where all your flavors come from. When whiskey that comes out of distillate is clear, we put it in the cask and it changes color and it changes flavor.
Female: It’s the part that requires the most patience as well though.
Male: Yes, but this age is very quickly about four weeks, four to six weeks, it’s all that it takes to really make a change into whiskey and to come up with something quite unique. We have a one liter cask package for nicely gift giving. We also have varying sizes of cask. We have 2 liters, 3 liters, 5 liters, 10 liters, 20 liters, for those who are really in to it.
Female: It’s just like the best science fare project ever.
Male: It is, it is a lot of fun, we’ve had many, many comments from people about how great and how much fun they’ve had playing with it and doing different things, trying different finishes, rum finishes, port finishes, cherry finishes, but this how you can get this at whiskeyworks.ca. I will do my little plug.
Female: Sure.
Male: Go to whiskeyworks.ca and you can order them online. That’s great well I hope you enjoy the rest of whiskey life, I certainly am going to.
Male: Thank you.
Female: And thank you very much for you time
Male: Absolutely.
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