Arrays of closely-spaced holes or cross-grain grooves are formed on the inside surfaces of the staves of a barrel, and/or on an elongated wooden member to greatly increase the amount of end grain wood exposed to the liquid and thereby increase the rate of aging the liquid. The holes and grooves in t
Arrays of closely-spaced holes or cross-grain grooves are formed on the inside surfaces of the staves of a barrel, and/or on an elongated wooden member to greatly increase the amount of end grain wood exposed to the liquid and thereby increase the rate of aging the liquid. The holes and grooves in the staves extend only part-way through the wood in order to maintain the structural integrity of the staves.
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1. A container for use in aging liquids, said container comprising a. at least one sidewall, said sidewall having an inside surface and an outside surface, and a top wall and a bottom wall secured to said sidewall,b. said sidewall comprising a plurality of separate individual wooden staves secured t
1. A container for use in aging liquids, said container comprising a. at least one sidewall, said sidewall having an inside surface and an outside surface, and a top wall and a bottom wall secured to said sidewall,b. said sidewall comprising a plurality of separate individual wooden staves secured together and to said top wall and said bottom wall to make said container liquid-tight, each of said staves having a first surface on the inside of said sidewall of said container and a second surface on the outside of said sidewall of said container, said first surface of each of said staves having an area between said top wall and said bottom wall of said container,c. at least one of said staves having a plurality of cross-grain cuts in said first surface partway through said stave in said area between said top wall and said bottom wall to expose end-grain wood in said one stave to a liquid in said container. 2. A container as in claim 1, in which said staves are elongated and in which the grain of the wood in said one stave extends longitudinally, said cuts comprising an array of round holes, said holes being independent from and mutually spaced from one another. 3. A container as in claim 2, said array of holes comprising a plurality of rows of holes aligned in one direction and a plurality of columns of holes aligned orthogonally to said rows, the holes in each of said rows being laterally offset from and located between vertically spaced adjacent holes in adjacent ones of said columns. 4. A container as in claim 1 in which said cross-grain cuts comprise a helical groove cut around the interior periphery of said sidewall. 5. A barrel as in claim 1 in which said cross-grain cuts are linear cuts which are spaced apart from one another and extending in a straight line transversely to said grain. 6. A barrel as in claim 5 in which said stave is elongated and the grain of the wood forming said stave extends longitudinally and said linear cuts are substantially straight grooves extending across said first surface of said one stave transversely to said grain. 7. A container for use in aging liquids, said container comprising, a. at least one sidewall, and a top wall and a bottom wall secured to said sidewall,b. at least one wood panel in said container,c. said wood panel having an array of holes therein, in which said array has rows and columns of holes with the holes in adjacent rows being staggered sideways so that each hole in one row is laterally and vertically spaced from a hole in the adjacent row, said holes in alternate rows being aligned vertically with one another, and the holes in each row being evenly spaced from one another, and in which said holes are spaced from one another by a distance less than the diameter of one of said holes, and the holes in adjacent rows being positioned vertically midway between the nearest holes in each adjacent row. 8. A container as in claim 7 in which each of said holes has two opposed side edges, each of edges slightly overlapping a vertical line drawn through one of said edges and parallel to the vertical center lines of adjacent ones of said holes in adjacent ones of said rows. 9. A wooden barrel made of staves bound together to form a circular cross-section side wall, said staves having inner and outer surfaces, said staves being bound together side-by-side, and with end walls secured near the ends of said staves to form a liquid-tight container, and at least one helical groove cut into the inner surface of said side wall and extending circumferentially along a cross-grain path to expose end-grain wood in repeated lands over at least a portion of the inner surface of said side wall between the points at which said end walls are attached. 10. A barrel as in claim 9 in which said staves are bowed and shaped to form a container with a larger diameter in the center than at the ends of the barrel, and said helical groove is formed in said inner surface of said side wall after said barrel has been assembled, whereby said helical groove is not reduced in width by the bending of said staves. 11. In or for a barrel for aging liquids, a. an elongated barrel stave having a longitudinal dimension and being shaped and adapted to be joined side-to-side together with other barrel staves to form a sidewall to be joined with end walls to form a liquid-tight barrel,b. said stave being a separate individual stave made of wood and having a grain which extends in the longitudinal direction of said stave, and having two opposed ends, an outside surface, an inside surface, and a pair of opposed side edges, and two end wall locations at which said end walls are to be attached on said inside surface, each of said end wall locations being one of said opposed ends,c. said stave having a plurality of cross-grain cuts extending transversely to said longitudinal direction part-way through said stave on said inside surface between said end wall locations, said cuts being longitudinally spaced from one another along said inside surface,d. said cuts being positioned and shaped to expose the end-grain of said wood in at least a part of each of said cuts to liquids in said barrel. 12. A stave as in claim 11 in which said cross-grain cuts comprise an array of mutually spaced apart cylindrical holes formed in a pre-determined pattern. 13. A stave as in claim 11 in which said cuts are linear and extend across said inside surface and are spaced apart from one another along the length of said stave. 14. A stave as in claim 11 in which said cuts are holes arranged in an array of columns of holes extending in said longitudinal direction and rows of holes extend ing in a second direction transverse to said longitudinal direction, each of said columns being located between two adjacent holes in each of said rows, each of said holes in each of said rows being equidistant from at least two adjacent holes in one of said columns. 15. A stave as in claim 11 in which each of said cuts has a depth which is no more than approximately one half of the thickness of said stave.
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