I'm new to distilling, only 1 year into it. I recently made a large batch of wine using a mix of 1/5 of each of these fruits; strawberries, bluberries, choke cherries, goosen berries, raspberries.
The wine turned out amazing, but I hated to see the all the fruits go to waste , so I took all the fruits and mixed them into four 5 gallons buckets added 8lbs of sugar, some ditiller's yeast and fermented for 2 weeks. I then ran it thru my 3" reflux still without any packing inside the tower, so basically using it as a pot still I stripped the whole mash. The 20 gallons of mash gave me 3.5 gallons (14 liters) of a very tasty alchool at 55%.
Now you can taste the berries and smell them in the alcool, now I was thinking of aging it into a new small medium charred oak cask. Should I go ahead with this or should I be trying something different, I never aged before in cask before or done this type of distiling.
Would anyone have any suggestions for this newbie?
Any thing would be greatly appreciated.