Bourbon barrels

It seems you've caught a serious case of the Mickey virus. What relevance does your post (above) have to home repair? And, who reading this newsgroup cares if you can afford 7 year old Whistle Pig bourbon?

They are made from oak, a material we commonly use in home repairs.

Seems you have no life but to complain. Hope you enjoy some cheap booze tonight, if you can afford it.

For bourbon it is not just the barrel but the corn. I had never heard of the brand and see they have other whiskeys that are not bourbon. I would not pay about $50 for a bottle of bourbon but have drunk stuff costing twice that. A son gave me a bottle of scotch that cost well over $100 and it was awful. He also gave me a small charred barrel to put strong vodka in to convert to whiskey and it was awful too.

Yes, has to be 51% corn.

Depends on your tasting ability. I can tell good stuff from cheap stuff, but a lot of the little nuances are lost on me. You mention Scotch. I had a drink of Walker Blue and I disliked it less than the lower priced Scotches.

I enjoy wine with dinner and buy the $9 to $12 stuff. The $50 is wasted on me. I don't get the "it has a hint of cherry blossoms" some people sense.

Thread just prompted me to look at a bourbon my son had gifted me. It does taste good but I would not buy it myself.

I used to make my own wine and beer. I had a couple of peach trees and you can only eat so many peaches and pies and can a bit so I made wine. I quit decades ago but found an old bottle of blackberry I had made which must have been over 10 years old and was very good.

Wow, you can even get the bottle engraved!

I made wine too. Fun to a point, but still a bit of work at times.

We had a guy at work that did a couple of years in prison. He was very popular. He worked in the kitchen and figured out how to make wine in a closet.

So glad that you know all about my life and finances. It's a small mind that can't respond to valid questions with more than ad hominem insults. And maybe you also commonly use bourbon as well as aged charred oak your home repairs?

Oh my, I hurt your feelings. So your comment about me sipping good bourbon is not an ad hominem insult?

To answer your question, yes, I have used portion of a barrel around the house. Here is a way to open your mind and see what can be done,

Ed is just a whiney little bitch that doesn't have a life . He's bitter and and unhappy and wants everybody else to be unhappy too . That said , there's a new business in our area that's sucking up a big chunk of the white oak that's being harvested around here - and we got lots of it . They're milling barrel staves to make whiskey barrels . It'll be a few years before we get to drink whiskey that was aged in them though . I'll be uncorking a new bottle of Ezra Brooks 99 later this evening ... straight Kentucky Sour Mash Bourbon Whiskey and smoother'n silk .

Wow, just when I think you went as low as you can, you manage to show your lowest scum. Yep, you showed your true colors.

When I was young, some kids made skis out of barrel staves. Longer than whiskey barrel staves, don't know they were from.

I once used cable reel "staves" (if you call them that) for the splashboard on a counter top. The rest of the counter top was roughcut, so the finished staves gave it a relatively more civilized appearance. Cable spools are almost as versatile as wood barrels.

On topic. HTH.

And I saw a small report here (Spain) about a small factory in Spain that makes such barrels. They import the wood from the USA, they make the barrels, and then they export the finished barrels to you.

They will be more expensive for you now. Tariffs.

Your sarcasm is a sign of desperation. You don't even realize that you're off topic. The name of the group is alt.home.REPAIR (capital letters used for emphasis), Not recognizing that decoration is not synonymous with repair? Sad.

Really, talking about whiskey and barrels is closer to home repair than 90% of what goes on here. What are your favorite recent threads?

I don't have any. I'm interested in home repair and most threads deal with political issues. This group would greatly benefit from a moderator and no, I don't have the time or interest to get involved with that.

Just remembered about little barrel my son had bought me:

Yet you can't stop yourself from pretending that that is your responsibility.

Nifty. Yes, the package has more value than the contents.