Barrel Like with other spirits, longer aging results in a more pronounced flavor. Traditional balsamic vinegar is aged in a series of wooden barrels. Since its invention in 1868, the pepper mash used to make Tabasco sauce is aged for three years in previously used oak whisky barrels. Beers are sometimes aged in barrels which were previously used for maturing wines or spirits. This is most common in darker beers such as stout, which is sometimes aged in oak barrels identical to those used for whisky. Whisky distiller Jameson notably purchases barrels used by Franciscan Well brewery for their Shandon Stout
Finishing (whisky) well-known finished whiskies include Balvenie "Doublewood", which is finished in sherry casks; Angel's Envy bourbon, which is finished in port and rum barrels; Glenlivet "American Oak Finish" and "French Oak Finish", which are finished in brand-new casks of the respective woods; the Glenmorangie range of sherry, port, madeira, and burgundy finishes; and the Diageo line of "Distiller’s Editions", a "Double Matured" expression of each of their classics line of single malt scotch whiskies. Finishing (whisky) Finishing (also known as "double matured" or "wood-finished") is the procedure that some whiskeys undergo where the spirit is matured in a cask of a