Unlike some wines, distilled spirits don't age or mature in the bottle. Your unopened bottle of scotch that's been on the shelf for 20 years will taste the same as it would have the day it was bottled. However, once you open a bottle, some liquors will go bad, and others will lose their character ov

Jeff Stringer, PhD, chair of the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Kentucky, makes it an annual priority to track wood commodities prices. Around 2012, he started noticing a spike in demand for a very particular product: white oak staves, the thin strips of wood that

Everyone knows that a well-aged whiskey has panache. The older it is, the more stylish, tasteful, and sophisticated. It’s a part of our culture.But few people actually understand how the aging process works. It turns out, it’s not just a marketing gimmick, not even close. Spending years in aging bar