I visited Scotland last year. They bring this up a lot on tours. Some of the distilleries also bought land in the Appalachian region to grow trees to make future whiskey casks.

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mauvehaus 3 days ago | parent [-]

In Scotland, surely they're concerned with the future supply of whisky casks, not whiskey casks.

Also, AIUI, because bourbon has to be aged in new white oak barrels, you find a lot of former bourbon barrels aging distilled spirits all throughout the world, Scotland included.

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al_borland 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> whisky casks, not whiskey casks.

Interesting, I just looked up the details on this[0]. I’m surprised they didn’t hammer that home as well. I thought maybe you were just being pedantic at first, but that’s a good call out. I did make sure to say cask instead of barrel, as a barrel is just one size option for a cask.

They did talk about the rules of scotch vs bourbon and how some of that supply chain works for reuse.

[0] https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/about/about-whisky/...

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eszed 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

<Maximum pedantry mode engaged> Either could be correct, because whisky casks begin as whiskey casks. It's wise to be aware of all the links in your supply chain!

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wil421 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot of times they use whisky casks. Lots of distilleries use bourbon casks because you can only use a cask once for bourbon.

	▲	IAmBroom 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Which is restating what the GP said...