Aging with wood from Australia

[Aussie_Distiller1989]

Hello everyone I'm having great trouble finding
American oak or French oak in Australia.
I was woundering if you can use Tasmanian oak
Or even Vic ash or if anyone knows where I can find
American white oak or French of thank u

[Durace11]

Homebrew supply shops will typically have blocks, cubes, staves or chips. You can also check your local gardening store for half barrel planters. These can be cut up and used as sticks or blocks.

Something like this:
http://www.homedepot.com/buy/25-in-half ... -b100.html

[Dirge]

I remembered reading about using alternatives to oak elsewhere. Have a read here: http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... e#p7029670 and there's an onward link on the second page that adds more too.

What someone suggests is that oak is used mainly because it makes a good barrel, not so much for flavour, that the flavour effect was a happy byproduct, so getting hung up on 'oak or nothing' is perhaps not appropriate. Seemed reasonable to me. I also got the strong feeling that many posters were happy to trust their own judgement when experimenting.

Lots of homesick settlers planted oak trees here in NZ and they get chopped up occasionally. I've a few logs reserved from my mate's firewood pile but after re-reading the above piece I shall start looking for some citrus wood (and anything else that takes my fancy) too. I wonder what wattle would do? Lots of that being cut down here. Or what about a faint tang of blue gum...

I also wonder if you could get a hint of how it would behave by giving it a quick boil and tasting the water?

[maheel]

http://www.rolloutthebarrel.com.au/products.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

this mob sell offcuts in brisbane

or contact a local barrel place

some flooring mobs are using white oak from USA

[kobold]

don't use tasmanian oak, it's not even oak (just in name). ash might be great, with lots of flavour, but, again, it must be real ash.