Woodinville Age Your Own Whiskey Kit

For Christmas I got the Woodinville Age Your Own Whiskey Kit. You can find it on their website. The kit came with a oak barrel, a little instruction booklet, and two bottles of white dog whiskey. For those of you who may not know, white dog whiskey is whiskey that has been un-aged so it is clear in color. Because this is such a small oak barrel, the aging process is accelerated. So normally a whiskey that is aged a couple years could be aged in a couple of months.

Here is the whiskey at 4 weeks. It was more mature, but needs to be smoother.

At 5 weeks it had gotten some of it's smoothness. At week 8, which I neglected to photograph, it could have been bottled. But,  I was curious what waiting the full three months would do. 

Week 12 and the whiskey was nice and smooth. I'm definitely glad I waited. Time to bottle!

I used a tea ball to catch any debris that might have been in the barrel.  I was surprised that there wasn't any, probably because I did a good shake to get it out before I bottled.

The final bit. I actually got more whiskey out of it than I put in, despite those thirsty angels. This is probably because I added some filtered water to the barrel per the instructions. This whiskey is smooth. I need to order some more white dog whiskey to age another batch. According to the literature the kit came with, I should be able to get a few rounds of aging out of the barrel. After that, it's going to make a really neat book case decoration.