Anyone tried anything from oak and eden? They have 2 year old bourbon and rye that they bottle with a spire of oak. Sometimes the oak has been flavoured. Currently they don't have a distillery and they freely admit that most of their liquor comes from MGP.
They also admit that their product doesn't age in the bottle though it will pick up some flavor from the oak and since they put a heavy char on it, there is some activated charcoal present as well.
As a bit of a cynic, I see the carved spire exposing a bunch of end grain that is then turned into activated charcoal. A filter in the bottle. I guess the end grain would soak up a lot of flavor from the rum , wine, coffee, or beer they soak it in before it goes into the bottle.
More marketing hype or a useful innovation?
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Re: Oak and Eden
Marketing hype.
A method of adding new wood to an old barrel, or adding different wood, is to use a long bung, but that's not what they are doing.
You should be able get good results from aging in a 2/3rds full demijohn with the wood in it and proofing a bottle as you need it, but don't expect great improvement in a capped, full, proofed, bottle with a new/old/charred, or not/whatever domino in it.
A method of adding new wood to an old barrel, or adding different wood, is to use a long bung, but that's not what they are doing.
You should be able get good results from aging in a 2/3rds full demijohn with the wood in it and proofing a bottle as you need it, but don't expect great improvement in a capped, full, proofed, bottle with a new/old/charred, or not/whatever domino in it.