...it sounds good to me...
I am planning on using the Jack Daniels whiskey barrel chips, in my IIPA very soon and I plan to soak them in Jim Beam for about a week...
Also, I always add the "oakd" booze back to the bottle of booze.
Fantastic Idea!
n the idea of whiskey-soaked oak pieces in beer, I really doubt there would be any discernible difference between an American bourbon and a Canadian whiskey.
I guess it depends on how much of a whisk(e)y person you really are. Before I discovered good beer, I was very, very into whiskeys, especially bourbon.
A friend of mine did 10 gallons of the robust porter AG from Brewing Classic Styles, and split it up four ways. The first batch was unoaked. The remaining batches were oaked with cubes soaked in different whiskies, and 16 ounces (I believe) of the spirit was also pitched. I think he used a Four Roses single barrel, Glenlivet 12, and Jameson.
To the several of us that sat down and tried them all side by side, there was definitely a difference, and as the night progressed (and we got drunker) we did blind tests to see if people could distinguish which batch it was.
I would say probably 70% of the time we could identify it correctly in a blind test.
Admittedly, I am not that much of a whiskey person. I have no doubt that side-by-side you can tell a difference. In this case, however, I doubt that he would make the beer and regret using Crown as he sat pining for the Maker's Mark flavor. Of course, the amount of booze that ends up in the beer would be the big question.
Do you remember if any of them stood above the rest. I want to make an oaked stout soon and am looking for something to soak the oak cubes in. I ask b/c I am an enormous fan of glenlivet.I guess it depends on how much of a whisk(e)y person you really are. Before I discovered good beer, I was very, very into whiskeys, especially bourbon.
A friend of mine did 10 gallons of the robust porter AG from Brewing Classic Styles, and split it up four ways. The first batch was unoaked. The remaining batches were oaked with cubes soaked in different whiskies, and 16 ounces (I believe) of the spirit was also pitched. I think he used a Four Roses single barrel, Glenlivet 12, and Jameson.
To the several of us that sat down and tried them all side by side, there was definitely a difference, and as the night progressed (and we got drunker) we did blind tests to see if people could distinguish which batch it was.
I would say probably 70% of the time we could identify it correctly in a blind test.
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