Summarizing, it may be noted that the most impacting conditions occur if the
cask would leak within the first 20 years of storage.
Mark Sutherberry left of MAS, inspects new
casks with head brewer Steve Briscoe and brewer Mark Powell
Boge recommended installing an SD 40 screw compressor with a built in refrigerant dryer to meet the air requirements of the new
cask line.
But there was such demand for this whiskey, we've ended up choosing two
casks of fine nineyear-old malt whiskey from the Kilbeggan distillery.
While every
cask was visible to operators, it was an inefficient use of space.
The transport
casks are made to withstand damage that might come from a rail, truck or barge accident, said Mitch Singer, a spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, which promotes nuclear power.
Single-
cask whiskeys have high alcoholic content of around 60%, with the taste and smell subtly varying depending on the kind of
cask.
Most important is the entrance to the tasting room and
cask cellar.
Cork man Dave Quinn, the master distiller at Bushmills, said: "Each
cask costs around pounds 4,700 and we couldn't believe the interest, especially in the States where even the South California Tipplers Association have ordered one for their New Year's Eve party.
Tests at the University of Missouri in Columbia now indicate that the surface of a newly cleaned
cask typically carries 100 times more chemically bound ("fixed") contamination than removable contamination.
A highly rated independent bottler, all of whose single
cask whiskies scored over 90 points in the Jim Murray Whisky Bible 2009
Fluor Idaho loaded eight cobalt-60 containers into the new
cask.
