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Recent Examples of caskSo, taking a tour here offers the rare opportunity to see countless shapes of pot stills and cask types all under one roof.—Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025 The Jamaican edition features a tropical twist with the whisky finished in casks that previously held Jamaican rum — inspired by Treasure Beach on the south coast of the island.—Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025 Aged for 11 years in ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks, then finished for over eight months in ex-Caribbean rum barrels, this expression layers Lagavulin’s signature peat smoke with tropical sweetness.—Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025 The bare cask was breached, but the cask within a concrete jacket, or overpack, was not breached.—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cask
In 2022, an Ardbeg 1994 hogshead fetched £205,000 at auction.
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Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
The tone is efficient and business-like: details about hogsheads, crop rotations and bills of lading cover over a bloody reality merely hinted at in passing references to rebellion, illness and punishments among the enslaved workers.
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