Oak'd up Porter

[CharlieB]

I ordered a recipe for a plain jane Porter which I will be modifying slighty in either two ways:

Dry hop with oak chips and add a pint or fifth of bourbon?

Dry hop with Jack Daniels flavored smoking chips?

 

[FSR402]

I ordered a recipe for a plain jane Porter which I will be modifying slighty in either two ways:

Dry hop with oak chips and add a pint or fifth of bourbon?

Dry hop with Jack Daniels flavored smoking chips?

I did a bourbon stout where I soaked the chips in 2oz of bourbon for one month. Then added it to the beer (bourbon and chips) for two months. A year later it was like drinking bourbon.

Soak the chips for 2-4 weeks in the bourbon then drain and add only the chips to the beer. There will be enough bourbon in them to flavor it.
You can always add more if you want it later. But once it's there you can't take it out.

 

[ChshreCat]

+1 on soaking the chips and then adding them.

 

[Revvy]

I've got some JD smoking chips soaking in some more Jack in anticipation of racking half of my brown ales onto it...

 

[PWalk]

I add both my oak cubes and the bourbon right into the secondary and let it run it's course. I like the bourbon flavor to be stronger than most like it thus the reason why I toss it in. I let it all sit in the 2nd for about three weeks and then bottle it up. The bourbon becomes more pronounced as time goes on unless you throw some vanilla beans in with it in the 2nd which tends to overpower it.