I hope all works out well with your brew. I was at the Long Trail Brewery up here in VT today. After some chatting with the gent pouring the beers we got to talking about casks. He mentioned that he had some of last year's porter still sitting around in a bourbon barrel. They've only been using it for cooking (bbq sauces and braising ribs and such) but he went out back and brought us a couple small samples. I'm not a bourbon fan but this was incredible! Not something I could drink a full pint of, but a nice sippin' beer!