092 - Building the Barrels at Brown Forman with Michael Nelson

Bourbon Pursuit

Hobbies, Food, Leisure, Arts

4.8 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We are going back and revisiting episode #056 about building the barrels at Brown Forman. This is a great to wrap up back to basics month. Michael Nelson, Plant Director at the Brown-Forman Cooperage, gives a step-by-step and inside look to the barrel making process. Give us your bourbon story. Before we dive into the ins and outs of technicalities of barrel char. give us a history lesson about where we are. So this is my first encounter being at a cooperage. give me the 101 We saw one barrel that was cross cut. Talk about that. What’s the average number of discarded barrels that don’t meet some sort of quality assurance? Talk about char levels for a bit because it’s something that is always said, but never really explained about in depth. Is the barrel making process getting more expensive on a yearly basis because of demand and material supply? For everyone that missed the episode with Chris Morris where we talked briefly about the cooperage, talk about what it means to have a cooperage dedicated to their private whiskey The release of Cooper’s Craft happened recently. And it was named after the location of where we are recording today. What does that mean to you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. As we wrap up back to basics month, we're going to do a throwback to episode 56 when we got to tour the Brown Forman Cooperage and talk about the barrel building process. This seems like a good fit to put us across the finish line.
0:21.9	Next week, we're going to be back with a brand new episode.
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