PVW23 Filtration/Bottling Loss

[DPPSmoker]

Here is a short but sweet article I found online today. It shows the math behind the barrel evaporation of a PVW 23.

http://www.alcademics.com/2014/01/how-much-pappy-van-winkle-is-left-after-23-years-in-a-barrel-.html

One particular item caught my attention. Toward the end of the article, it references that there is about a one or two gallon loss due to filtration and/or bottling. The writer of this article did a poor job of editing. Nonetheless, I'm confused as to why there would be that much loss due to filtration and/or bottling. Can someone clue me in? Thanks.

[theglobalguy]

Here is a short but sweet article I found online today. It shows the math behind the barrel evaporation of a PVW 23.

http://www.alcademics.com/2014/01/how-much-pappy-van-winkle-is-left-after-23-years-in-a-barrel-.html

One particular item caught my attention. Toward the end of the article, it references that there is about a one or two gallon loss due to filtration and/or bottling. The writer of this article did a poor job of editing. Nonetheless, I'm confused as to why there would be that much loss due to filtration and/or bottling. Can someone clue me in? Thanks.

I go with thirsty bottling line?

Seriously though, the dump and filter/fill process isn't exactly precise when I've seen it done. A little splash here...little splash there.

[squire]

It's all that (hic) quality control testing.

[Ravensfire]

It's all that (hic) quality control testing.

[soonami]

Probably liquid loss in the hoses and bottling lines, absorption by the filters, purging lines, and just "stickiness." If you pour whiskey out of a glass, there's still a layer of whiskey that coats the inside of the glass that you can't get out. Think about all the hoses, pipes and tubes that are coated in whiskey

[P&MLiquorsEric]

The sanitizing of bottles requires that they spray a small amount in prior to filling.

[smknjoe]

...and then pour it out? So, pre-rinse with the booze? Interesting, I do the same with sample bottles.

[Quantum]

Yeah, but I always drink whatever I used to rinse the sample bottle out with.

[squire]

I'm sure that waste not want not attitude prevails elsewhere (certain bottling lines) as well.

[DPPSmoker]

Points well taken. Thanks guys. It just seems like a whole gallon or slightly more would be excessive loss from bottling/filtering.

[PaulO]

Then there's also the big loss, while it's in cases, waiting to be shipped.

[squire]

Some cases are born escape artists and not even a locked door can keep them from going walk about.

[B.B. Babington]

filter is not like a coffee filter. how much oil does your car's oil filter hold?