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Old 08-21-2009, 07:36 PM   #11
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If you have an Hour, listen to this "Wood Aging"

I think, the idea is to start with about 1-2oz and taste often, until you get the oak flavor where you want it to be.


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As for moving to secondary, IMO you are too late to use a secondary fermentation schedule. Using an ambitious FG of 1.015 you have already chewed through about 85% of your fermentables. If you transferred now you would not bring enough yeast to finish and condition the beer.

Give the beer enough time on the cake to fully condition; I think 3 weeks is good but a month may not be a bad idea.

After that, purge your bright tanks (carboys) with CO2, and transfer in being careful about air contact. Beers that will be subjected to age have a higher likelihood of oxidation problems.

The beer that is getting oaked should have a third vessel to spend its bulk aging time in.
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Update: I just racked it to two five gallon secondaries. I am tentatively planning on two weeks in there. then one is going to bottle and the other will go to tertiary for an oaking session for plus or minus a week, then bottled when it tastes right.


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