Barrel-aging primer, introduction, or other resources?

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DavidWood2115

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Is there a good primer or other introduction to barrel aging beers? A friend is offering me a couple of small whiskey barrels, one five gallon, one three, to use to try making a (hopefully worthy) barrel-aged beer. We both like dark belgians, and I have had a few nice barrel-aged interpretations of said beers. Is there a book, primer, HomebrewTalk forum that would be a good introduction to attempting such a beer?

Thanks!
 
Did you ever find a good source for this info? I've been brewing for 15 years and have done several BA stouts using oak chips, but I finally want to try the real deal. Lots of questions regarding using an actual barrel...
 
Aside from using known decent barrel aging recipes (did you know dopplebocks come out weird for some reason?), it's mostly trial, taste, and error.
 
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