So that's basically the idea for our scheme. For various reasons (runway costs, meeting already high demand) this distillery is only aging 11 months on their regular releases and 18 months on their "Distiller's Select."33anda3rd wrote:There's one from Austin TX that's pretty good called Garrison Brothers. The secret to these hot climate whiskeys is the aging. In KY there are only a couple big diurnal shifts per year. Once as winter turns to summer, once as summer turns to winter. In places like AZ and TX they have two diurnal shifts every 24 hours: as the very hot day becomes the cool night and then back to the next hot day. This regular expansion/contraction of the barrels pulls and pushes the whiskey in and out of the wood and they can age a bourbon for 4 years that tastes like it was in the wood for 10.
Me and some friends approached them about us buying two ex-bourbon barrels and putting the Dorado product in for 3-4 years depending on evaporation loss and taste. We're going to pay up front for the raw product, labor, branding, and "services" and at the end own the product. At that point we can keep it, sell it direct to consumers through their special release program, sell to distributors. Garrison Brothers & Kavalan are the model, but they are both much less arid climates, especially during summer. It's not a huge investment split 3-4 ways, and I'm mostly in it out of curiosity and the opportunity to participate in the creation of a product I love that I would otherwise not be able to. They seem intrigued and open to our idea so far. Just have to nail down cost/expectations.
