Tonight my fireplace is burning...

[PatrickIreland]

Old barrel staves, straight from the Bushmills Distillery. Not only do they smell fantastic (better if you have a glass of the stuff beside you and a glass of it inside you!), but they burn fantastically...

 

[AOD]

hahahaha nie work. So how did you get ahold of these?

 

[dingeryote]

Your neighbors have gotta love you for that!!

The aroma must be increadible.

Good snag!!
Dingeryote

 

[PatrickIreland]

I got hold of it right from my neighbour, actually! He has a gas fire...
One of his friends buys the old barrels to cut in half for plant pots, or keep whole for water butts, etc. - and had a huge load of old staves from barrels which weren't good enough to sell. So the neighbour took a trailerload for me and I repaid him by cutting his deck wood to the length he wanted it - then he gave me a bottle of the 12 year old single malt and just said "enjoy it".
So my house smells of delicious Bush, as does my fireplace - I stacked them in the front room for the minute as the smell is so great!
They sell the barrels super-cheap, as well, even the good ones. One load of whiskey and they are useless to the distillery, all the flavour is sapped out of them apparently...

 

[Brian VT]

My favorite whiskey in the whole wide world.

 

[Ljute]

My favorite whiskey in the whole wide world.

+1!

Would love to smell that burning along with a shot or five.

 

[brian660]

if you think its good in the fireplace try some in a wood smoker with a boston butt