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Excellent! I'll give it a try. But is it the electricity or the copper causing the drink to "age"? There's been some discussion of "aging" red wine by simply dipping a copper penny into it for a couple seconds. As a control, I'd be curious to see what happens if you put the brandy in the volt/age apparatus for the usual time period, but without electricity (just the copper electrodes in the drink). Nevertheless, I'm going to make one of these, it is fantastic.

Just to be clear, I am in no way associated with VOLT/AGED, other than being a HUGE fan of Jon Sarriugarte and his crew. Now where's that Jameson?

Nitrogen is supposed to be the better gas to use for aging alcohol. It's what I heard from a wine chemist in Carmel Valley less than ten years ago.

When you pass electric current through an electrolyte like this, you have metal ions from the electrode flowing into the liquid (it's also how electroplating works).

metal ions range from fairly toxic to extremely toxic depending on the metal being used.

I would suggest people who want to this do a lot of homework before drinking wine treated as an electrolyte way.

I would wager the talent pool for taste-testing whiskey is ridiculously large. Talk about everyone wanting to doing something for the betterment of Science.

To avoid dumping too much crud into the drink, carbon electrodes might be the thing.

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