Beaverdale Oak Chips

[sirkuk]

I started a Beaverdale Chardonnay wine kit on the weekend (Friday afternoon) but I forgot to add the supplied oak chips.

I'm in two minds whether to add them to the secondary when fermentation is complete in the primary, just open up the primary and add them in now or not bother with them at all?

I just want a nice drinkable wine when all is said and done so don't know if I'd miss them or not?

Any advice? Still relatively new to homebrew and this is only the second wine kit I've done.

Cheers chaps

[winka]

Personaly I would add them now, and give a gentle stir to get them completley coverd. They eventually drop and sink to the bottom, so adding them later at secondry my not get them to drop.

Just my opinion of course and I only normally do a primary,then rack leave to another FV for 24 hrs then bottle.

Cheers

[sirkuk]

Personaly I would add them now, and give a gentle stir to get them completley coverd. They eventually drop and sink to the bottom, so adding them later at secondry my not get them to drop.

Just my opinion of course and I only normally do a primary,then rack leave to another FV for 24 hrs then bottle.

Cheers

Cheers. I'm not likely to cause any issues by opening the fermenter while it's bubbling away?

[sirkuk]

Oak chips in. Cheers winka.