Word: whiteoak
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...solid whiteoak timber...
Scotch is aged in used barrels, which improve flavor and prevent undue evaporation. Best for the job are sherry-soaked, whiteoak barrels from Spain. Second best and far behind are used 50-gallon bourbon barrels from the U.S., in which most Scotch is matured. Because of rapidly rising Scotch demand and production, used bourbon barrels are becoming scarce, and have doubled in price over the past 18 months to $28 per cask...
...fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four to six years in new, charred whiteoak barrels...
...latest installment of the Jalna story has special appeal, because when Author de la Roche first began slicing the Whiteoak loaf it never occurred to her that it was going to have to last for a quarter of a century. Now she is obliged to do some fine cutting off the butt end. The Whiteoak Brothers is about Jalna in 1923, but as there have already been eight books about Jalna since 1923, De la Roche fans will have a grand time chuckling over the brothers' efforts to evade destinies that have long since been translated into 14 languages...
Charmer from Yorkshire. Brothers starts with Renny Whiteoak, master of Jalna, firmly in his seat, or rather his saddle, because Renny is the type of man who only gets off his horse when he is watching a horse show. Uncles Ernest and Nicholas are still getting aged and shaky; Grandma Adeline (who died some books ago) is lively as a cricket at the age of 98. Brothers Eden (22), Piers (19), Finch (15), Wakefield (8) are still in the process of growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other...