We used to take our spies neat, from cold-war casks, European aged.
A distillery set up by Italian immigrants in Flushing, Queens, made vermouth after World War II, and its mighty casks of antique white oak and cypress were turned into a "bar console" by Noah Spencer of Fort Makers in Brooklyn.
A large contingent put ashore to fill their water casks.
Whiskymen love their casks.
When the war finally ended, the first ship to fly an American flag on the Thames, in 1783, was a Nantucket whaler, hoping to unload four hundred and eighty-seven casks of whale oil.
The casks, she said, were "robust".
Maury, as a member of the governor's advisory council, Virginia's de facto War Ministry after secession, had arranged with Maupin to use the university's laboratories to test and develop better batteries, different acid combinations, improved watertight casks and stronger insulated wires to make the torpedoes more deadly.
We did, and we saw the casks at Indian Point.
Traditional, or "real," ales are packaged into casks.
In selecting the aging casks, he turned poetic.
The casks, as it turns out, were the better choice.
