Port/ sherry keg experience
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 4:20 pm
A hot water dunk was then done hot out of kitchen tap and left another week did the trick only had a slow drip so filled with warm water on its stand and another week it had sealed up ok.
Then the fun part I added extra oak chips probably 100 grams (5 litre keg) and then the spirit at 90%abv.
Now you do lose a lot to the Angels I can't tell how much you just have to keep topping it up regularly but if I was to guess I reckon I lost half a litre a month in summer ;-) in the five years it has been filled numerous times and what has come out of it is nothing short of amazing :happy-partydance: my missus loves it and I taste it every now and then it is an on rocks drink and I like my coke? So I don't get to hook in much, but it is very smooth it is still carrying over slightly its port days in the taste but is a very accomplished drink well worthy of a few high fives from mates who appreciate straight likker.
My experience having done nothing over this time I think it has got a few years left in it :obscene-drinkingdrunk:
You can see in the photo the swirl line is thick and solid ( I just found it is called the legs because of the lines it makes down the glass the higher the alcohol % age the thicker it is the higher ABV this keg is currently sitting at 50%ABV not as high as I thought :doh: