https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/dining/drinks/whiskey-bespoken-lost-spirits.html
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Can a Fine Whiskey Age Overnight?
That’s the claim being made by several companies that are using technology to speed their spirits to the liquor-store shelf.
Credit.Gabriela Hasbun for The New York Times
Published Feb. 11, 2021Updated Feb. 15, 2021
There is an old joke about business that gets told a lot in Napa Valley: How do you make a small fortune in wine? Start with a large fortune.
The same goes for making whiskey. Equipment, barrels and enough space to keep them all can cost millions, money you won’t recoup until years later, when the spirit has matured. In the meantime, you’ll have lost 20 percent or more of your product to evaporation as it ages what distillers wistfully call “the angel’s share.”