Hey! I just had whisky last night. The lady was saying it's aged in wooden casks made of white oak.
Oh yum! that sounds awesome
A barrel or tun is cylinder and hollow with staves and metal hoops to hold it together.
Nice, what other cool info do you have?
Wine is shipped in barrels too.
Oh nice. I need a few barrels then
I hate that you cannot trace it back in history often because of the wooden aging so fast.
That is so true
Whisky
Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Various grains (which may be malted) are used for different varieties, including barley, corn, rye, and wheat. Whisky is typically aged in wooden casks, generally made of charred white oak.
Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many classes and types. The typical unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, distillation, and aging in wooden barrels.
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Barrel
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They were originally made of wooden staves and bound by wood or metal hoops. 
Traditionally, the barrel was also a standard size of measure referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of . Wine was shipped in barrels of . Barrel has also come into use as a generic term for a wooden cask of any