KISS....Wood..Oak..Flavour...

starkid101

Talked to a fella today he said

Boil water add oak simmer how long depends on your taste

add to high % booze to get down to 40%

so boil approx 3lts water with wood for he said 4 minutes and add to 2 lt 94% booze and you are done

?????????????????????????

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Clickeral

General conscientious is you want less oak and more time

I range from 1 domino to 7grams of oak per litre depending on how long Im aiming for at between 63-65%

I am starting to get product that is coming up on 3months and tbh wont be touching it for another 9

I had a 90 old makers mark style Modified CFW which I thought was pretty good and that was 1 domino per litre but I think I should have left it longer

Starting to think some of the stuff I have aging is a little headsy and I should have done better cuts :s

Really need to make more and get it aging but i can't atm due to my current situation :(

Lloyd

Not saying Old Fellow is wrong but I never heard of such a thing.
We usually add the white dog to the charred wood, but not to boiled water and wood.
Might be like nuking in a microwave oven? Unorthodox but maybe not wrong?

Let us know how it works out for you. I don't see it as wrong, just profoundly different than anything I've ever done.

starkid101

boiled some wood

it smells like wood

vooharmy

The complexity of oaking seems best when developed over time. When I first oaked my rum it took on a significant woody taste. That same rum 2 months now has no woodiness. I guess what I am saying is it would probably work but I can't see it cutting down the time as the oak still needs to mingle with the spirit to do its magic. I am a noob so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Lloyd

Yeah, there is that @vooharmy. The spirit has vastly different flavor depending on the strength of the spirit that is aged on oak. Some prefer higher than 65% while some prefer a lower %.
So extracting the "flavor" from the wood by boiling it in water is contrary to what I know but I'm willing to listen to others as they experiment by thinking 'out of the box'.

We've seen microwaving, ultrasonic bath and other ideas that were poo-pooed as heresy just a few years ago that are accepted now.

For my brown spirits I could see boiling an oak domino with 1/2 a vanilla pod (and 11 other secret herbs and spices) as a kick-starter and enhancer to aging.

In 5 years it could become known as the Starkid method (gonna need a snappier name for that to catch on 8-| ).

A hundred years ago they poked pineapple and spices into Rum barrels to get better tasting booze.

punkin

@starkid101 said: boiled some wood

it smells like wood

That's exactly what i knew would happen. You will get the wood flavour of sucking on a paddle pop stick without the vanilla, maple and smokey complexity.

At least now you know that while people often come out with gems, sometimes it's just crap.

starkid101

I was to lazy to clean pots last night,so now 15 hours later the little oak squares made from a wine barrel smell sugar surpy

the doms are still wood but not strong

think I ieave em in pot and see what happens

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