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[Assurbanipal_II]

The wood drink too. They have to fill the barrels sometime cause the fucking wood drink it.

Yes, there is a reason that they are made with a curvature like this so that can expand.

Have you ever seen one of the giant ones?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Not just. It is the chemical structure of wood, residues, wine stone, and the interaction with air insides ... Wood gives and takes. Wood lives even if it might sound cliché.

Yeah, I meant that. That's why sometimes they take barrels that had one type of alcohol for a long time, and use it for a different type of alcohol. Changes the flavor even more.

 

[RepresentingPride]

Have you ever seen one of the giant ones?

You mean a tank?

Like this?

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

You mean a tank?

Like this?
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More or less. 2m diameter upwards.

 

[RepresentingPride]

More or less. 2m diameter upwards.

Yes, I've seen some, but most of them were made of Inox/Stainless steel. Just some old one were made of wood. If I remember right, they used one that was like one century old.

More or less. 2m diameter upwards.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Yes, I've seen some, but most of them were made of Inox/Stainless steel. Just some old one were made of wood. If I remember right, they used one that was like one century old.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Just in case. This is the type of mug I am talking about. With metal.

Ironically, I know of an entire sets of wooden "mugs" that my mother had, because she ran an antique shop before she died.

Wooden mugs like that (with the metal bands) existed, but they were for SHOW. they usually got made for display. The cups that were made for actual consumption were carved from entire logs in one single piece then sealed with something. Actual wood sucks for making a cup because the wood would absorb the liquid and then mold or shit would start to grow in the wood. Like, I remember looking at one set of wood drinking cups and going, "What's that?" pointing at the black spots at the bottom and being told, "That's mildew."

That would explain why most of those mugs were used for drinking alcohol, so the alcohol kills the shit growing on the mug.

However, as for those metal bands, they were only made to be displayed and the ACTUAL drinking wooden cups and plates weren't made out of strips of wood and pressed together. However, actual barrels made by actual coopers for storing material were also popular. You'd be surprised how many rich people wanted to buy hundred year old rain barrels to put in their living rooms back in the day.

Like, restoring old crap with a fresh coat of lacquer and making it into a table or planter was all the rage in the 1980s.


EDIT: To clarify, this is my experience with ACTUALLY USED WOODEN CUPS/MUGS.
So, we're dealign with the stuff that were recreations and/or made in the past 100-200 years. So, mostly American crap.