Yes, the wife is the one that took the pics.
The beer in the stainless barrel is to top up the Jim Beam barrel after FG has been reached.
I am also going to put some in a carboy to secondary separate from the whole batch to see what differences (besides oak character) keeping the beer in the barrel have on the finished product.
Once the barrel is done its done, the club gets a new barrel each year for each barrel brew.............. dont fret though a few of us (from the club) are going to turn that into a solera with a sour beer.