question on oaking and aging

[noname4670]

ok guys i am sorry if this has been covered before but i want to try oaking and aging now so i was wondering if people could give me some advice on where to get the chips from other than my home brew shop i mainly drink jim beam and jack daniels with the ocasional run so would like to do this with the oaking and aging any help greatley appreciated

i am in tassie by the way

tim

[OzKev]

Are you happy to toast/char them yourself?
If so RollOutTheBarrel has boxes of offcuts, ~6kg for $20. Even if you paid another $15-20 to get sent, they are nice fresh oak with a lot of aroma.
I'm only experimenting with these, but you get bigger peices so you can toast the outside and leave raw wood in the center to get all the flavors.

Otherwise if you prefer to leave the toasting to someone else and are happy with the thin dominos, I'm not sure if there are some left in this bulk buy
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[Zak Griffin]

Not sure if you're too late, but have a look in the group buy section for Hava's oak domino group buy... Heaps of guys here are using these to great success.

If not, have a suss at any local wineries or distilleries, they might have offcuts or old barrels laying around :)