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Originally Posted by Marcellus
I just did a big porter and used oak blocks cut from JD barrel slats and some Tennessee Honey tossed in. Bottled it about a month ago and have it in the cellar waiting until Fall.
I'm thinking of buying an oak barrel as well. The barrel isn't that big of deal but. You really need to season it with something. I like the sherry barrel aged stuff so I will probably try to go that route.
I've mad probably 15 batches of beer in the last year and have been mainly kegging for a year. It's much easier than bottling. Nothing like having your own beer on tap.
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I'm thinking about buying an oak barrel, pouring a bottle of bourbon into it, then rotating it for a few weeks... and since there's more surface area in contact with the beer, I don't think it would very long at all.
I didn't get much bourbon or oak flavor when I tried it yesterday and it has been about 10 days... a little surprised there wasn't more of those flavors, but the instructions said 2-4 weeks, so it wasn't totally unexpected.