No. Thats irrelevant. You are expressing your interpretation of the TTB rules. I am expressing mine. I love this site and have been reading it for the last 6 months. This was the first thread that everyone jumps on another distiller based on what they perceive to be the law. If TTB meant barrels they should say barrels. I feel the industry is in a transitional phase. The big boys (Brown-Foreman, Diageo, Beam-Suntory, etc...) have preach tradition and barrels so long nobody is giving new techniques a shot. There should be no secret rooms or processes in whiskey making, its 4 ingredient. People should judge a whiskey on taste alone. Thats how beer and wine folks do it. They embrace technology and change. In doing so they forced sell outs of Budweiser and Miller (to Inbev). Craft beer drinkers just want a good beer. Whiskey drinkers should just want a good whiskey. Who cares how long one ages in a barrel. The TTB laws are not in place to protect the consumer they are in place because Whiskey Barons had legislation passed back in the day to protect them.