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Recent Examples of hogshead
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.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
According to the distillery, the whisky was initially matured in a combination of European oak butts and American oak hogsheads, and then finished for more than four years in Oloroso and Palo Cortado sherry casks that were sourced from Andalusia, where the Spanish city of Jerez is located.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 June 2025
Distilled entirely from barley harvested at a farm less than two miles from the distillery, 15.3 was aged in a combination of first-fill bourbon barrels and first-fill Oloroso sherry hogsheads from Jerez.
—Tony Sachs, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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.
—Literary Hub, 29 July 2025
According to the distillery, the whisky was initially matured in a combination of European oak butts and American oak hogsheads, and then finished for more than four years in Oloroso and Palo Cortado sherry casks that were sourced from Andalusia, where the Spanish city of Jerez is located.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 22 June 2025
Distilled entirely from barley harvested at a farm less than two miles from the distillery, 15.3 was aged in a combination of first-fill bourbon barrels and first-fill Oloroso sherry hogsheads from Jerez.
—Tony Sachs, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hogshead
Noun
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The bourbon is produced in Kentucky as a small–batch expression blending around 10–15 barrels per batch.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Orange barrels and flags across the Treasure Valley have had a lot of motorists seeing red the past couple of years.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Stranahan’s ages its whiskey that way, at least before cask finishing a portion of it, and bigger brands like Jim Beam’s Clermont Steep, Bulleit, and Jack Daniel’s all do as well (the latter also gets a lengthy secondary maturation in sherry casks).—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
7 Sep. 2025
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This rye whiskey is crafted from a limited batch of only 20 barrels, the most limited in the series so far, and bottled at cask strength.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gamers will appreciate the efficient airflow design with the new Cryo-Chamber that helps pull cool air into the system through 2 fans, 3 copper heat pipes, and 4 exhaust vents.—
Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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On the platform, around the clock, the racket of metal bore pipes and machinery, the drilling grime and the speckled mud mingled with the quieter, cleaner work of scientists in trailers converted to pristine labs and processing posts.—
Rodrique Ngowi,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Hogshead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hogshead. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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