Brewing with wood chips

[Kevjtul]

I recently acquired some wood chips from a single malt scotch barrel. Most beers that are flavored with wood use bourbon barrels. I'm just curious if anyone has experience with using scotch flavored wood in a beer. Thanks

 

[EJay]

I recently acquired some wood chips from a single malt scotch barrel. Most beers that are flavored with wood use bourbon barrels. I'm just curious if anyone has experience with using scotch flavored wood in a beer. Thanks

...and most Scotch barrels start out as wine barrels

I doubt it will be THAT much different than a bourbon barrel, other than the fact that a scotch barrel probably doesn't have a lot of wood flavor left in it.

 

[Roadliner]

Or used bourbon barrels, or brandy, some use rum.

I'd use them more for imparting the flavor of the scotch the aged than oak flavor.

 

[Eli_Crow]

Would you add the wood during the first fermentation or wait till the secondary to add it??

 

[Roadliner]

Personally... the secondary.

 

[unionrdr]

I add liquor-soaked oak to the secondary in sanitized hop sacks. About a week with chips should do.

 

[Davemci]

Most Scottish distilleries use american bourbon barrels. In the U.S. you can only use a barrel once for whiskey making. In Scotland there is no law, and they prefer the more subtle flavor and aromas that come from a used barrel. What color are the chips? Do u have a pic? And what distillery did it come from?

 

[zmanzorro]

+1 on the secondary.

How many chips?

 

[Homercidal]

I'm wondering why you couldn't boil some chips with the wort. I'm wondering if that would bring out enough of the oak flavor and allow a person to bypass the oaking in secondary..

 

[zmanzorro]

Would there be any risk of creating Methanol if you boil the wood?

 

[A2HB]

I would be concerned with leeching unpleasant tannins from boiling the wood with the wort. If you did maybe they would age out though?

 

[DromJohn]

Brew Dogs Aberdeen episode was a ghost ale brewed in a cask made from three different scotch whiskey casks.