How to Reduce Evaporation Loss in Maturation
Evaporation is inevitable, but you can influence it. Practical levers — humidity, warehouse type and cask choice — to cut losses.
Articles in Maturation
Evaporation is inevitable, but you can influence it. Practical levers — humidity, warehouse type and cask choice — to cut losses.
A quick reference to common cask types and their sizes — from quarter cask to puncheon — and what each is good for.
A step-by-step cask stocktake that reconciles your warehouse against your records — and keeps you audit-ready.
A practical routine for tracking maturation — when to sample, what to log, and how to plan toward target bottling dates.
Microclimates, rotation and findability — how to lay out a maturation warehouse so every cask is tracked and consistent.
Oak species, char level, size, previous contents — the four levers of cask choice, and how each shapes your spirit.
First fill, second fill, refill — what it means, and how a cask's fill number shapes flavour and maturation speed.
The simple formula for angel's share, a worked example, and why tracking it matters for both value and compliance.
How to manage casks from fill to bottling — cask types, rickhouse layout, angel's share, maturation tracking and stocktakes — without losing the thread in a spreadsheet.