San Antonio, TX
Outside, in the hot Texas sun on a 100 degree day, TJ took us to see a forty and a twenty foot shipping container out back. The first held casks upon casks of small oak barrels aging the bourbon. When you step inside the container, your senses are filled with the aging process. With watering
eyes and noses on fire from the heady aroma, we felt the heated metal rims of the bottom barrels versus the top barrels and learned of
the 20 degree temperature difference in the solar heated environment. The smaller shipping container was actually a smoker for the grains that would be soon be turned into yummy beer. We asked TJ what gave him the idea to use shipping containers in this way and he referred to his time in the US Army where containers were often used in many ways. We were so impressed with TJ’s passion and good old fashioned American ingenuity. ’Merica.