Oak CUBES in Australia?

[shifty]

Anybody know where to get em? Maybe an online site?
Im guessing there better to use than oak chips.....

[olddog]

You Can buy a half barrel for $50, oak cubes are usually $10 a packet, for the cost of five packets you can get oak for years with a half or full barrel.

[shifty]

I always wondered if the red wine stain inside would taint the whiskey flavour, or do you just cut that section off?
Cheers...

[olddog]

Nah it adds to it

[shifty]

In a good or bad way?
Also, do you toast yours? .........

[olddog]

In a good way.

[shifty]

I know a guy that sells barrels..... ill get onto it strait away!

[plonker]

I seem to remember reading about a scotch whiskey which is aged in red wine barrels... seriously expensive.....

[SuperDavid]

from the reading I've done, people say that it adds a better flavour to it and mellows it out more when you have the red wine stain on the oak still.

[airhill]

Olddog gave me one of the staves from a red wine barrel (many thanks )

Toasted and it does give a better flavour.

[blanikdog]

That's all I ever us, shifty. Staves work well. I just give the outside a bit of a planing to remove the accumulated dirt and gunk from the cellar.

blanik