Bake with abandon!
After the fever pitch of last week’s tasting, today’s quarter turn seemed anticlimactic. Dr. Thomson likened it shooting par after a birdie. “One shouldn’t complain, but going through the motions again seems so mundane.” Realizing the hard slogging has just begun, Thomson briefly considered switching …
A momentous day for As The Barrel Turns. Having completed the first full rotation, Dr. Andrew Thomson succumbed to public pressure and sampled his Whisky Works project. Initial excitement quickly turned to frustration when the cask failed to yield its contents. Remembering his fifth grade …
This week, As the Barrel Turns got mail. Given the comment that poured in, serious consideration was given to sampling at this stage of the process. A willing but wary Dr. Andrew Thomson says, “I’m concerned that frequent and repeated sampling will leave me an …
This week, on As The Barrel Turns, a potential setback was narrowly avoided. In an uncharacteristic burst of bravado, Dr. Thomson chose to forego the accurate measuring of the degree of rotation and opted to just “eyeball it.” While the barrel landed in the proper …
For those who are following this breaking Whisky Works story, today was Barrel Turning Day. “I felt a lot of pressure,” says Dr. Andrew Thomson of Wilfrid Laurier University’s History Department. “Clockwise or counter-clockwise? It’s a big decision. Once you commit to a direction, there’s …
The first step of the Whisky Works project involved swelling the oak barrel with water for three days. Andrew emptied the water yesterday and filled the barrel with the provided whisky. The recovered water, pictured here, is light amber, almost the colour of urine. Not …
What do you get a man who already owns almost every single malt Scotland can produce? A whisky finishing set. They say every man needs a hobby… This wee bairn of a barrel comes with its own bottle of pure malt whisky. Cask strength at …