At GF13, both Mr Morton and Mr Sharp, were seen by self, sneaking around with bleedin' great bags of oak dust and chips.
Investigation (ok, nosiness) showed this to be intended for use during the making of whatever.......
The builders are due to be finished next week, so once we've got the house back to normal, I'll be asking the "Frozen Grape King" about getting my stuff sent.
In light of this and wanting to make any preps necessary to proceed (relegated to the shed, so 3 more brew belts for the ferment etc), I was thinking of getting a barrel planter and reducing a couple of staves to shavings (only the clean wood once any charring and/or dirt etc had been planed away).
So how much per gallon (weight-wise) ? And would it be X grammes per gallon of grape pulp, or would it be X grammes per gallon of pressed juice/wine ?
Only because if I was trying to mimmick barrel fermentation, it'd be the former, but if just trying to copy barrel aging (for oak flavour at least) it'd be the later.......
But I don't know........
Any idea's or guidance ?
Investigation (ok, nosiness) showed this to be intended for use during the making of whatever.......
The builders are due to be finished next week, so once we've got the house back to normal, I'll be asking the "Frozen Grape King" about getting my stuff sent.
In light of this and wanting to make any preps necessary to proceed (relegated to the shed, so 3 more brew belts for the ferment etc), I was thinking of getting a barrel planter and reducing a couple of staves to shavings (only the clean wood once any charring and/or dirt etc had been planed away).
So how much per gallon (weight-wise) ? And would it be X grammes per gallon of grape pulp, or would it be X grammes per gallon of pressed juice/wine ?
Only because if I was trying to mimmick barrel fermentation, it'd be the former, but if just trying to copy barrel aging (for oak flavour at least) it'd be the later.......
But I don't know........
Any idea's or guidance ?
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