by Crastney » Tue Sep 22, 2015 13:30
I was in B&Q recently and saw a bag of oak chips made from Jack Daniels no.7 sipping whisky barrels - they're supposed to be for using in a smoker/BBQ, but I got them anyway, and last night I put 30g of chips into a 1 gallon DJ of Elderberry cider, as an experiment.
now I'm lead to believe that oak chips add tannin, and elderberries are also high in tannin already, so this experiment might just be making the thing much more tanninic (?) and take longer to mature and mellow out, however it can't get much worse than it already is!
it's obviously cider, but deep dark red colour, and very harsh mouth feel (and it's been maturing for at least a year, and has had malolactic fermentation going on already). I have another DJ the same which I didn't add oak chips to, which I can use as a control, and I bottled another similar DJ a couple of months ago - we'll see how these turn out.
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