Thank you. I think my concern is just what you say: they use oak barrels to age. The kits add the cubes at an early stage when the wine is, quite frankly, terrible. The more I think about it, the more I am pretty sure I don't want that in my beer. Unless someone has some good experience...
I'm going to be racking a Cabernet off of oak cubes today, and am considering holding on to the oak for use in a future beer. I see plenty of posts about soaking cubes in wine, but haven't turned up much about recycling them from winemaking. Does anyone have experience with this? My concern is...
Not the most entertaining "Florida Man" headline, but give me time; I've only lived here a few years.
I moved to the Tampa Bay area at the same time as two guys who are good brewers and who are now good friends. I've been a winemaker, but never brewed until I hooked up with these guys and...