The amount the Angel’s take each year varies widely based on barrel size, time, environmental conditions and even the location in the warehouse. This same expansion and contraction happens with wooden barrels as their precious cargo magically matures inside. Or maybe you have a wood floor that swells so much in the summer it sometimes buckles, however in the winter you can see small gaps between the boards. In the winter that same door works just fine. Do you have a door that occasionally sticks? When you stop to think about it, it doesn’t stick all the time, it only sticks in the summer when the humidity tends to be higher. Think about the house or apartment you live in. Wood is a porous material that expands and contracts with the seasons. This is often thought of when talking about whiskey or bourbon but the same is true for Scotch, Brandy, Cognac, Wine and Whisky without the e (the Angel’s don’t care how you spell it, they’ll get their share either way.) In the simplest of terms, the Angel’s Share is the amount of distilled spirits lost to evaporation from the barrel or cask into the air as the whiskey ages. It may be a little or it may be a lot but they will not be ignored. The Angel’s take their cut from every barrel of distilled spirits.
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