usmcoklahoma
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Ive been tickling the idea of using wood in my next brew, which will be a toucan American Style light beer. What uses could I get from wood? I have hickory, apple and pecan most readily availible.
Ive been tickling the idea of using wood in my next brew, which will be a toucan American Style light beer. What uses could I get from wood? I have hickory, apple and pecan most readily availible.
Hickory and apple would be chips and cubes, the kind used for smoking. Pecan would be sticks from a buddies tree.
Would I want to add them to the fermenting process or use them at bottling time?
I thought you weren't meant to soak wood in vodka?
unionrdr said:see post #5...
Hmmm,well,it is a rather neutral spirit. It might pull a lot of flavors strictly out of the wood. That's all you'd be getting. I think the intent is to use the wood to mellow the liquor being used,as much as the wood flavors themselves.
That's why I used the liquor & the chips together in secondary. Since it's not just the chips soaking up liquor flavor,but the liquor soaks flavor out of the wood.
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