Is there a best place to store my barrel once filled with Wasmunds Spirit?
For fastest aging you want warmth and/or variation in temperature. Think expansion and contraction of the wood. Also, motion can help; so you can turn your barrel a quarter turn every week or so. We know a barrel head that drives around with the barrel in the back seat of his car. Some say put it in a window that gets a lot of sun. Other writing on the subject suggests that imported whisky was favored just because it had the advantage of a transatlantic voyage in barrels -think of the rocking and sloshing!
