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Just last month I visited a large bonded wharehouse where they store spirit barrels on those racks. They had plenty of ceiling height, but limit their stacks to 5 barrels high. Not because of fire regulations but with more layers stacked on top the pressure on the bottom layer caused barrel deformation and leaks.

Hi Underjakk, Being from the Netherlands I have tried to make a Beerenburg and I think I can at least help you out to get started. First of all; Beerenburg was originally made by fisherman who bought a mixture of herbs in Amsterdam from a man named Hendrik Beerenburg, they macerated the herbs in Brandy or Genevre while fishing. Nowadays there is a multitude of different spirits that all differ slightly, both named Beerenburg and Berenburg. The Braumarkt reference you give is for a mixture made by the company Jacob Hooy, they claim to provide the original herbal mixture. Most people that try this one (myself included) feel that is overly bitter after three weeks of maceration. A shorter period of maceration works better. As for proportions; the list of herbs on the package is in order of dosage with the first mentioned herb being the most prominent, this shlould help a little. This is a different recipe fin Dutch that I haven't tried but is said to give good results, Herbs are very different from the Jacob Hooy package. I have no time to translate at this moment but I guess google translate will do a quicker job anyway; https://www.stookforum.nl/thread/beerenburger-kruidenbitter-recept/ Roelof

Good Morning all, After some time of just following this forum it was time to subscribe and join the fun. My name is Roelof and I have been running Dutch Craft Distillery (or in Dutch; De Kleine Distilleerderij) since 2017. Before starting the distillery I have worked several years as a product developer for alcoholic beverages, and my educational background is in food technology / biotechnology. Dutch Craft Distillery make local products whereever possible, but is mostly aimed at producing quality spirits that taste good (sounds simple but in my opinion the focus in the spirits industry was and is more on the marketing). Apart from our own product line the distillery also provides a product development service and produces various private label spirits. As said I have been reading the contributions on this forum, love to be able to some valued content of my own. Roelof