{"id":82,"date":"2023-08-15T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskymates.wordpress.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:47:02","slug":"whiskey-maturation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/15\/whiskey-maturation\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisk(e)y Maturation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due to the hot temps in Kentucky, during maturation more water evaporates than air. This means that ABV actually goes up during the aging process. The opposite is true of Scotch due to the temperate climate. So much so that old scotch barrels need to be monitored so that they don\u2019t drop below the min to be called Scotch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337834846_1367524490693528_7972423791996762745_n.jpeg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" style=\"width:600px;height:481px\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337834846_1367524490693528_7972423791996762745_n.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337834846_1367524490693528_7972423791996762745_n-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above: A Scottish dunnage warehouse. Below: a Kentucky rickhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337550395_226226126566047_3172340256548687177_n.jpeg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337550395_226226126566047_3172340256548687177_n.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/337550395_226226126566047_3172340256548687177_n-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the hot temps in Kentucky, during maturation more water evaporates than air. This means that ABV actually goes up during the aging process. The opposite is true of Scotch due to the temperate climate. So much so that old scotch barrels need to be monitored so that they don\u2019t drop below the min [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiskymates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}