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Things Bikers Love (or Hate) => The Whiskey Barrel => Topic started by: fjtwelve on January 21, 2022, 09:16:12 pm

Title: Buying a cask
Post by: fjtwelve on January 21, 2022, 09:16:12 pm: A group of 12 of (ex) work colleagues including myself are planning to club together to buy a cask of whisky as an investment/excuse to meet up and drink whisky. Anyone done this before? Any do's and don'ts?
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: Phmode on January 21, 2022, 09:57:56 pm: Don't leave it at another person's house... 8)
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: richtea on January 21, 2022, 10:19:00 pm: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/25643/how-to-buy-a-whisky-cask/

â€˜If it is a financial investment, be very aware that whisky values can go down as well as up.'

They forgot to add the rider '...especially if you drink it'.

(The article is 2.5 years old, so you can compere the prices with 2022.)
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: chriscanning on January 22, 2022, 06:56:33 am: Kinâ€™ell....when I saw the title thought you were talking about the type of cask they put you in when your dead 😂😜
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: richtea on January 22, 2022, 10:11:40 am: Why not combine them:
https://www.whiskyadvocate.com/forever-aging-bourbon-barrel-urn/
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: Phmode on January 22, 2022, 12:46:36 pm: Quote from: chriscanning on January 22, 2022, 06:56:33 am
Kinâ€™ell....when I saw the title thought you were talking about the type of cask they put you in when your dead 😂😜

:) :) :)
Title: Re: Buying a cask
Post by: fjtwelve on January 22, 2022, 06:39:49 pm: One of the construction managers I worked with was called Kinnaird. She was (still is) quite forthright about telling people what they needed to do, so fairly quickly acquired the nickname Kinell...