Good question. We originally hoped the brandy would do the job (it would certainly assist the flavour and aroma) but we did some reading and at ABV 60% and higher alcohol kills off bacteria but below this level it doesn’t. We might trial a brew with no hot water and see how it turns out but there’s a chance it’ll end up down the drain. Most barrel ageing vids involve sanitising (not that there’s many of them). Work in progress 🍺
Cracking video lads 🍻🍻 that t-shirt looks brilliant on Gandy 👀👀 looks perfik! Have a good weekend 🍻
Cheers amigos 🍺 glad you approve of the t shirt appearance!
Would love one of those tiny glasses for my whiskey 😄😄😄
Those bad boys are in very high demand 😉
What's with the spigot. Also looks like you have varnish on the wood
Did you need to sanitize the barrel with hot water? I figure the brandy did the job already.
Came to comments to ask the same question.
Good question. We originally hoped the brandy would do the job (it would certainly assist the flavour and aroma) but we did some reading and at ABV 60% and higher alcohol kills off bacteria but below this level it doesn’t. We might trial a brew with no hot water and see how it turns out but there’s a chance it’ll end up down the drain. Most barrel ageing vids involve sanitising (not that there’s many of them). Work in progress 🍺
Epic video with some proper effort put into the brewing. Looks like it would make me fall over at that % 🤪nice one cheers 👍🍻
Do I spot a certain T-shirt in the start of the video 👀👀👀
MALCOLM!
We call him Kojak….