Oak for brewing

Oak

Typically you use oak to age wines and spirits adding complex buttery vanilla flavours and tannins to add mouth feel.

Wines would have traditionally been aged in oak barrels.

Spirits like whisky and brandy have to be aged with oak to get their amazing flavours.

Different oak will add different flavours. You can even toast the oak to add extra flavours and colour. Whiskey and Brandy makers may even flame their oak barrels with blow torches to char the oak to add extra flavours and colour.

Oak chips are fine oak sawdust which adds a lot of flavour quickly. You can use them straight out of the packet or you can toast them in a frying pan.

Oak Spirals can be use post fermentation for ageing. This is great if you want to age with oak but dont have an oak barrel. Simply place the spiral in your demijohn and leave to infuse it flavours.

Oak Cubes are usually make from old oak barrels that have been used for ageing, but when the barrels come to the end of their life and cant be remade, then the staves get cut up into cubes and you can add these to your fermented wine, spirit or even beer. Oak cubes tend to come in a variety of pre uses, red wine, bourbon, brandy, port, etc etc. These cubes not only add the oak flavours, but also those flavours and aromas of the liquor that was held in the barrel.

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Marion Charles

SG Wines (Solomon Grundy) Classic - Sweet White - 7 Day White Wine Kit - 30 Bottles

Brilliant tasty glass of wine.

We have purchased this wine kit numerous times. We have always had a good quality pack of wine. Presented chilled this wine is as good as any shop wine.
Always ready to drink within a couple of weeks .

01/21/2025

Jon Pinnock

White Wine Enhancer and Enricher - 1 Litre - Grape Juice Concentrate - Youngs Definitive

If you want to make a quality wine that you used to by

Quite simply add this .
You will have the fermenter foaming all over the floor and walls but you will have the real quality that you want .
Made fruit wines of all types for years and on some as a hobby , had a go last year base level wine kit and so so ,a bit sweet ok if you only want to get well oiled . But this added to a kit is wow for a nearly sixty year old wine drinker just try adding half the bottle to your next 30 bottle kit you will never go back.

11/14/2024

andy mainwaring

Wine Bottle Shrink Capsules (Caps) - Matt Black - 30 Pack

Bottle tops

Very good works a treat.makes the wine look professional and attractive to the coinesseur.

10/19/2024

Louise Wheeler

Large Mashing - Sparging - Straining Bag

Straining bag great item

I made my first ever wine, blackberry wine using this bag after following David on his Youtube video, great product, less mess and easy to use. Thank you David for your help and support with my order.

08/26/2024

Richard Fothergill

Mangrove Jacks - Apple Cider - 40 Pint Cider Kit

Mangrove Jacks apple cider kit

Easy kit to brew. Pleasant, very refreshing apple flavour ideal for lazy summer days in the sun. Very impressed and intend to try others in this range.👍

06/20/2024

Alex Balfour

Muntons Gold - Imperial Stout - 40 Pint Beer Kit

Early days

Eventually started this one and it went off like a rocket initially. Took a reading yesterday and it was a bit off the recommended fg but will give it another week and check it.Smells amazing though.🤞🏻

02/15/2025

Colin Archer

SG Wines (Solomon Grundy) Gold - Chardonnay - 7 Day White Wine Kit - 30 Bottle

Lovely wine

Fast delivery,arrives well packaged
Excellent value for money and easy to follow instructions 10 out of 10

02/15/2025

jase

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simply lager

perfect full of flavour when partnered with light lme pack full bodied taste this man knows his stuff happy as always

02/15/2025

Laurence H.

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Good

I use this for sterilising bottles, using a zero rinse liquid, before siphoning home brew beer.

02/12/2025

Anthony Davies

Tom Caxton Dark Real Ale Beer Kit - 40 Pint

Tom Caxton Dark Ale

I have brewed this kit a few times and it has always produced a nice tasty ale, I would recommend it to anyone who hasn't tried it yet!

02/11/2025

Anthony Davies

Tom Caxton Dark Real Ale Beer Kit - 40 Pint

Tom Caxtons Dark Real Ale

I have brewed this kit a few times and it has always turned out to be a nice tasty ale, I would recommend it and I will certainly be brewing it again.

02/11/2025