NT CICHLIDS wrote:mmmmm was looking at the JD chips :think: they claim to be fron JD barrels :?
They probably are.
I'm a newbie like you mate, probably even more newbie-ish so don't know a hell of a lot yet but the whole oaking and aging thing interests me.
Done a fair bit of reading on it yet still put nothing to practice.
The one little thing that bothers me about using chips from ex-JD barrels etc is that 'they' don't.
They use new oak, char it, and age it. Then they take their whiskey and flick the barrels. To me, it seems if they're not using their old barrels again and again, why would we?
Let's say we wanted to make an exact clone of JD, if we used their old barrel chips, we'd never be able to make it because they don't make it with old whiskey barrel chips.
Best bet "could" be to source some oak and char, re-char or toast it? there's a few sound suggestions on the subject on this forum (from members who've put in the yards) I'm itching to give a crack mate, have a read, worth it. :handgestures-thumbupleft: