With a very like minded approach to repurposing wood materials, Grain and Glenmorangie embarked on what would be roughly a year-long extension of Glenmorangie's "Beyond the Cask" program, to create something functional, beautiful, timeless and true:  a handsome surfboard with repurposed oak casks at its core.                                                                                                                                                                                             Glenmorangie prides itself in the fact that they only use their whiskey casks twice before retiring them, but they knew that there was so much more life left in that precious wood, and so they were determined to figure out other ways it could still be used.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           "Trying to build it into a board was interesting. The interior frame was the thing that got me really excited about the project, because that was a sincere use of the material (oak)," said Mike LaVecchia, of Grain Surfboards. "It's the structure of the board," he said.                                                                                                                                                                                                           And this unlikely partnership between two opposite worlds ended up having one serious passion in common:  high-quality wood. Both Grain & Glenmorangie uphold their standard of quality products to the highest degree. Needless to say, the boards are masterpieces.