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Old 09-02-2012, 09:19 AM
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DO NOT FILL WITH WATER this will introduce water into the wood grain and your whisky will have an off taint. If you want to rinse the cask out then use some spirit or wine but never water. If the wood was used to age port then you may get a lovely pink to purple tinge in the whisky.
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