SKU CCA-MT-250G Category Oak chips

Oak chips american medium toast

€6.67
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Weight 250g

Medium toast American oak chips. Profile: caramel, toasted hazelnut, vanilla.

Oak chips american medium toast

Medium toast American oak chips. Profile: caramel, toasted hazelnut, vanilla.

The Ideal Alternative to Barrels

Oak chips are a quick and economical method to add a “barrel-aged” aroma to your beer. While barrel aging is a delicate art in homebrewing, chips offer an interesting alternative to reproduce its organoleptic effects.

Moreover, they are not limited to beer... Enhance your wines, kombucha, or spirits with American or French oak chips.

Our chips are made from dried American oak staves (barrel slats), reduced to chips and toasted to create flavors similar to those obtained with a barrel.

Medium Toast American Oak Chips offer an aromatic palette of caramel, roasted hazelnut, vanilla. They can be easily combined with more toasted oak chips or French oak chips.

The roasting levels of our chips are “Light”, “Medium”, and “Heavy”. Each degree of toasting brings different flavors to the oak, not an increased intensity in the beer. These are not weak, normal, or strong levels; each presents a distinct flavor profile. In addition to these roasting profiles, American oak chips will have more wine-like flavors, while French oak chips will lean towards spirits.

Dosage of Oak Chips:

  • - 2.5g/L: for a complexity effect without a dominant woody marker
  • - 4g/L: balanced dosage
  • - 6g/L to 8g/L: a pronounced woody character clearly marking the bouquet and structure of the beer recipe used.

Of course, if you plan to age the beer for a long time, you will need to reduce these dosages. Oak chips are an oenological product, mainly from the wine world, and as with wine, the best guide will be your palate. Regularly taste your aging beer to determine if the woody flavors suit you.

Possible Introduction Phases:

  • - End of boiling
  • - End of primary fermentation
  • - During beer aging

Contact Time:

With the dosages given above, 3 weeks will be sufficient for adequate extraction. However, there are no strict rules, and the exposure time can vary from a few days to 3 or 4 months.

Ideal Beers with Medium Toast American Oak Chips:

  • - Saison
  • - Strong Blondes
  • - Wild Beers
  • - Brett Beers
  • - Wine/Beer Hybrids

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