Using your Thumper For Aging ?????????

[sltm1]

I can't find any reference to this method so I'm going to put charred 1" oak cubes in my thumper for tomorrow's run and see what I get. Anyone else ever tried this method of "instant" oak aging?

[MDH]

You will receive a clear spirit which smells somewhat strange.

[LBHD]

The sugars and lignins from oak that affect aging are not going to carry forward in evaporation from the thumper.

If you aged outside of your kit, and re-distilled, the liquor would end up clear again and would not have the sugars from the wood etc.

[Truckinbutch]

Don't think I would try that . There's a large difference between flavoring and ageing . Microwave works well for what it is . Still will not replace time .

[NZChris]

Gave some rum a good macerate and got plenty of oak into it, but the distillation left most of it behind. If I try again, I'll put the used oak in a gin basket.

[rubber duck]

That will not work, but I like your outside of the box thinking. Keep it up some of us have come up with some wild shit that couldn't be done and now it's accepted.

[NZChris]

From my notes, the oak didn't come over til the last cloudy jar, so if you want to try this, I suggest the tails should be removed prior to the oak run, the chips to be macerated for at least a week at around 65 deg C, or over a year at your usual temperatures, put all of the chips in the thumper and run deep.

[NZChris]

Btw, I wouldn't call it ageing. More like making new white dog with a hint of oak. Mine has been cellared and I'll have a taste again in a few months.

[sltm1]

Thanx for the "hold on there feller", I'd have hated to waste an entire run on something that's already been proven not to work. I came up with the idea while mulling over making gin using the thumper.

[raketemensch]

A thumper's a great place for other flavoring, though. Apples, pears, vanilla beans, mangoes, herbs, whatever.