Yummyrum wrote:My only advise would be to heat your spirit in a double boiler...IE ...stick the bottle of spirit in a pot of boiling water .Don't try and heat it directly....And please not on a gas cooker
flamehawk wrote:Gents,
I have tried two options to date and I have a preferred option
1) adding around 10grams HBS chips to 400mm of dbl distilled whiskey at 85%. Heating to 80deg and removing from heated water and screwing the lid on.
crow wrote:I still say aging is done in a barrel and a barrel only (neutral in amphora jars excluded) , all subsequent methods are to closely imitate the effects of aging and are really for the most part flavoring
Urrazeb wrote:Sorry FH for the off topic..
I have noticed even neutral spirit has improved woth age, be it a few weeks
Brendan wrote:Urrazeb wrote:Sorry FH for the off topic..
I have noticed even neutral spirit has improved woth age, be it a few weeks
It's a well documented and proven fact...chemical reactions occur altering the molecular structure of ethanol over time. Regardless of oak, ageing is ageing :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Zak Griffin wrote:I, and most others here, generally put spirit on oak at ~65%... This will take desirable flavours and colour out of the timber.
If you're heating 85% spirit to 80°c, you are going to boiling at least some of it off...
I'm not sure what the group buy dominoes weigh... 10-20g? I use one domino in 2L of 65% spirit... For at LEAST 2 months...
I dunno what the HBS chips are like, but a bit of trial and error at different %s and different amounts of oak, for different times, should get you what you want.
Not trying to be passive-aggressive, just a little sarcastic. You'll notice that 70 other people have looked at the thread without suggesting anything.
Yummyrum wrote:Sounds like your first method is a variation of "nuclear aging" used by some that involves heating spirit in a microwave to force the liquid into the oak and then cooling it to create a vacuum and suck it back out .
My only advise would be to heat your spirit in a double boiler...IE ...stick the bottle of spirit in a pot of boiling water .Don't try and heat it directly....And please not on a gas cooker
And yeah most oak at 65% ...I used to...I have some at 78% for the last few months and it is not so bad as some might suggest
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