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;

Oak Spirals

Barrels

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