Oak Chips in primary or keg?

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Slainte

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Hello all,

I have a sweet stout in the primary, it has about another week to go. Yesterday I remembered I had some oak chips I wanted to put in there, so I got em soaking in some whiskey.
Should I put in the primary for this last week, or can/should I put em in the keg to condition?

Any advice/guidance would be much appriciated. Thanks!

Slán go foill,

Sláinte.
 
I've never done this, but I would think that adding the chips during conditioning would be better than during fermentation - there's so much going on during fermentation.

Jim
 
in secondary. if you oak in the keg, the beer will just keep soaking up the oak flavor, to the point it can become way overpowering and not tastey.
 
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