Description
Oak Chips Light Toast for Whiskey and More
Toasted oak chips made from American White Oak. Oak Chips Light Toast for a lighter color and strong oak flavor. 1 lb bags bagged right in our shop for freshness. This light toasted oak works well for aging spirits like whisky, rum, tequila, or brandy.
Also available in Dark Toast
Other methods for oak aging spirits are;
Liquid Oak Extract
Instructions;
Let these chips soak in your distillate and test every week until you get to where you want to be. In other words flavor to taste. Easily add a hand full or one cup of oak chips to one quart of spirit. Adjust quantity up or down to fit your flavor to taste. These chips will give spirit flavor, color and will also help with making the end product smooth. An inexpensive and straight-forward way to oak age your spirit.
Creative ideas using oak chips;
You can also char these oak chips with a propane torch and get the effects of a charred oak barrel. Lay out the oak chips on a cookie sheet or baking sheet and char with torch to a suggested medium char then add to spirit.
Soak oak ships in wine for 6 months then add to a whisky for a unique flavor profile. This would be similar to aging a scotch in a used wine barrel.
Use oak chips that were aging whiskey to age a rum
Use oak chips that were aging rum for example in a beer for to get the barrel aged rum or a barrel aged whisky flavor in the beer.
1 lb bag
I have used for a couple batches. Color is beautiful and shows in 2-7 days depending on how much you use (I am still experimenting). I ran one batch in a new charred American oak barrel from Mile Hi and IMHO there is no comparison the barrel cure is much better it just takes a lot more time and higher cost. If you have only used the chips I would encourage you to get a barrel and let sit 5-6 weeks and test for yourself. However, I am using these as I don’t want to invest in a bunch of barrels and also wait a few months each time – these chips give great color/flavor in short order (again IMHO as I’m still learning). Kuddos to the Mile Hi staff they have always been extremely helpful in answering my questions and pointing me in the right direction!
Just got them last week and adding them in one my bottle. Will wait until it’s done for about few more weeks. So far so good.
Great for adding color and flavor I use 1 cup/Gallon for 6 weeks. Surprisingly I got more flavor and color from medium toast than I did from dark.