Bourbon cask flavouring for IPA's

[MonkeyMick]

Hey.... Possibly a silly question that may already have been answered elsewhere..

I've recently drunk/drank a number of pale ales that have been aged in sherry/whisky/Jack Daniels casks - mostly by Innes & Gunn.

I'm also aware that I can buy wood for the barbecue that is supposedly old bourbon cask wood that's designed to impart a smoky bourbon flavour to the food when it's cooked.

Would it be feasible to drop some of these wood chips into a batch of beer as it brews, to try and replicate that flavour, or is there a better way to achieve it...

Many thanks in advance!

 

[-Bezza-]

How about normal oak chips and then add bourbon to taste?

 

[MonkeyMick]

There's a danger it would end up as a glass of bourbon!

Plus I tend to overthink things, and missed this idea completely.......

 

[Leon103]

Will pm you.

 

[Sadfield]

If you like to over think things.......

http://www.homebrewfinds.com/2015/03/guest-post-toasting-your-own-wood-chips-by-matt-del-fiacco.html

Toast a stock of raw/untreated oak chips/chunks to different levels of toast and char. Then use the relevant ones to replicate Bourbon barrel flavours without the spirit notes.

https://www.whisky.com/information/...ground-knowledge/barrel-production.html#c4567

 

[stigman]

Innes and Gunn don't barrel age they cheat like us homebrewers. https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/10/innis-gunn-defends-barrel-aged-claims/

 

[MonkeyMick]

Innes and Gunn don't barrel age they cheat like us homebrewers. https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/10/innis-gunn-defends-barrel-aged-claims/

The monkeys......