Oak aging
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thrstyunderwater
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I've never had an oaked ipa, how are they? I've got my own oak cubes I toasted and have wondered how they are.
Cromacster
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I oaked a porter with 2 oz of medium toast cubes. The cubes were soaked in 16oz of makers mark for about a week, then I added both the bourbon and oak to the beer.
I let it sit in secondary for about 2 months and its now in bottles.
When I sampled it during bottled, it has a pretty strong, but very drinkable oaky flavor. Delicious
I let it sit in secondary for about 2 months and its now in bottles.
When I sampled it during bottled, it has a pretty strong, but very drinkable oaky flavor. Delicious
I did a DFH 90 min with the JD chips. By the time you can really taste the chips flavor it overpowered the hops. I had a bottle the other day (possibly the last one) and it still tasted as I remembered it did at almost a year old granted all the hops faded to bitter at that point.
I wouldn't use more than 2-3oz of the chips soaked in 2-3 jiggers of plain vodka in a tight lidded container in the fridge while the beer is fermenting. It took mine that long to soak up 2/3's of the 5 jiggers of Beam's black I soaked them in. So 7 or 8 days is pretty strong. So 2-3 oz chips to 2-3 jiggers vodka in this case should be a bit less intense at 5-7 days in secondary.
I've been kicking that Mesquite thing in the back of my head as my next wood aged ale. I was thinking of using it in a brown ale with maybe 3oz of 3 different spicy German hops. Like a Western rouchbier of sorts. Also do a medium toast on the mesquite chips in the oven to bring out more flavor. How's that sound?
Has anyone used charred oak staves? I visited Makers Mark last week and was able to buy 5 full sized charred oak staves that was used to make Makers Mark 46. I am trying to figure out how to use these things.
Bernie Brewer
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Dude, they have been soaking in alcohol. They are plenty sanitary.
OP, I don't know how much you spent on those, but you could soak your own a lot cheaper, I'll bet.
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