AW: New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little magical?

[rado]

Hi all,

400 x 0.7 l = 280 l

and as Dave said sherry casks can be very big,
even 132 gallons or 500 l.
I would say such cask would be almost half empty then.

Rado


Bernhard Schäfer wrote:
> Hi all,
> I assume that after 38 year the cask is half empy, even without draining
> somethin out.....;-)
>
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> Von: MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE [mailto:MALTS-L at RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE] Im
> Auftrag von djrussobik at AOL.COM
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 01:38
> An: MALTS-L at LISTS.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE
> Betreff: Re: New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little
> magical?
>
>
> Sherry casks (butts) can be very big, so the initial volume could have been
> much greater than those other casks, if they were barrels or hogsheads...
>  
>  Dave 
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: petelamb1970 at AOL.COM
> To: DJRussoBik at AOL.COM
> Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: New 1967 Highland Park - Sounds Expensive...and a little
> magical?
>
>
> I agree that spltting casks is no new thing I know of many casks that have
> been split - I also believe that casks actually evaporate faster the less
> that is in them so this could be an interesting experiment - my main query
> is how are they going to get 400 bottles from one cask - take the averages i
> got from other people bottlings highest one is 220 bottles or something
> along those lines to get 400 bottles by dilution the ABV would have to be
> close to 80% to get enough bottles at 40% ABV.  Please correct me if my
> maths is wrong.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Mark 
>   

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