1
: a barrel-shaped vessel of staves, headings, and hoops usually for liquids
2
: a cask and its contents
also
: the quantity contained in a cask
Examples of cask in a Sentence
an oak cask for wine
They drank a cask of wine.
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According to House of Rare, it was aged for three years in ex-bourbon barrels and then at least three months in Pedro Ximenez sherry casks (it’s being released in three lots, so the finishing time may vary depending on which lot).
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 May 2026
On a recent afternoon, customers in a Connecticut store browsed the rows of wooden casks, which stretch from the entrance to the rear of the spacious building, and amid the aroma of freshly roasted and ground coffee filling the air.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
Others move toward honey, baking spice, caramel, smoke, and deeper fruit shaped by longer aging and more assertive cask regimes.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Thanks to cask beer manager Mason Swierenga, Wren’s pours are known for soft carbonation, live yeast, plush mouthfeel, and a slow pour that builds its own head—under the cask’s spell, hops and malts show different faces.
—Chris Malloy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
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Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 May 2026
On a recent afternoon, customers in a Connecticut store browsed the rows of wooden casks, which stretch from the entrance to the rear of the spacious building, and amid the aroma of freshly roasted and ground coffee filling the air.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026
Others move toward honey, baking spice, caramel, smoke, and deeper fruit shaped by longer aging and more assertive cask regimes.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Thanks to cask beer manager Mason Swierenga, Wren’s pours are known for soft carbonation, live yeast, plush mouthfeel, and a slow pour that builds its own head—under the cask’s spell, hops and malts show different faces.
—Chris Malloy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for cask
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“Cask.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cask. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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cask
noun1
: a barrel-shaped container usually for liquids
2
: the quantity contained in a cask
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