Im looking to add wood chips when I rack my wort for the second time. Is there any special sanitation steps that I should look into like boiling the wood chips or oven baking them? Also, These were wood chips that were used at my work for another batch.... so is it still good to use, even months later??
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Cesar
Wood Chips in beer
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Re: Wood Chips in beer
Steaming them in a vegetable steamer for 10-15 minutes is a good way to sanitize while not extracting any flavors. Like the Cap'n said, I'm not sure how much extra oak character you will pull out of previously used chips though. Certainly worth a shot I guess.
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Re: Wood Chips in beer
is it okay to use wood chips in primary after fermentation has finished.
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Re: Wood Chips in beer
Sure, just follow sound sanitation practices like Kevin said above.huntfisher wrote:is it okay to use wood chips in primary after fermentation has finished.
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