Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
Re: Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
Don't worry too much if the flavour is o t t just leave it a month or two longer than normal before drinking
Re: Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
I haven't tried it before but I do heard that it you can indeed smoke meat with the use of wood chips. Usually the types of wood you can use are the birch, maple, hickory and of course, oak timber. But among the number of wood species, it is oak that is the most versatile and offers heavy smoke flavor particularly matched well with ribs, beef, brisket, fish and any heavy game meat.
Re: Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
I recently bought these untreated oak chunks from amazon. http://amzn.eu/0WBWMXq.
I then charred some of them in a hot dry pan to replicate the charring on the inside of a barrel.
The remainder I toasted in the oven at different temperatures (110, 160 and 215C) for an hour each as per this great article.
http://www.homebrewfinds.com/2015/03/gu ... iacco.html
I ended up with 4 different levels of toasting that should impart different levels of flavour into my beers. Fingers crossed.
I then charred some of them in a hot dry pan to replicate the charring on the inside of a barrel.
The remainder I toasted in the oven at different temperatures (110, 160 and 215C) for an hour each as per this great article.
http://www.homebrewfinds.com/2015/03/gu ... iacco.html
I ended up with 4 different levels of toasting that should impart different levels of flavour into my beers. Fingers crossed.
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Re: Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
Sad,
I`ve got wood like that in my Chimenea from 2yrs ago!
Hope the Brews turn out OK!
WA
I`ve got wood like that in my Chimenea from 2yrs ago!
Hope the Brews turn out OK!
WA
Re: Oak chips, can you use BBQ smoking chips?
Ha ha! One for the Innes & Gunn marketing department, "Chimenea Aged" beer.