the $8 homebrew barrel

[slim chillingsworth]

anyone tried this?

http://madfermentationist.blogspot.com/2007/02/8-homebrew-barrel.html

 

[Arneba28]

This looks kinda cool but why not just add cubes or chips

 

[z987k]

because the wood lets O2 in, just putting oak chips in won't do that.

 

[Arneba28]

ah ok, I saw that on the link page and it didnt even occur to me as that was the reason.

 

[Ryanh1801]

anyone tried this?

http://madfermentationist.blogspot.com/2007/02/8-homebrew-barrel.html

Have not tried it yet, but I will be doing it with my sour Brown.

 

[landhoney]

Mine is similar, not sure if you mean the dowel/chair leg method or Mikes actual contraption.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=44148
My beer has not come up out of the dowel, so I have not needed an airlock. And mine goes down into the beer so that the Brett can live in the wood, they like it there and get O2 in a similar way to a barrel.

 

[slim chillingsworth]

And mine goes down into the beer so that the Brett can live in the wood.

that was my number one interest in doing this.