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Can you use Live Oak to age? In my head I don't imagine it would taste good and no idea about the chemical makeup... Just lost a huge live oak in the yard though and contemplating the salvage/uses.

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so it's not live, just recently deceased.

It needs to sit out in the weather for a bit to season, leaching tannin or something like that

Here's another "green/live wood" thread recently asking the same/similar question. Look around and you'll find more.
http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... =4&t=67672
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I believe the op is about the species "live oak" if I'm wrong... My bad

If you mean raw, nope! don't use it until properly aged outdoors for a year or more. Better to split or plank and let the weather do what it does uncovered.

If you mean the species then do the same as above and make some sticks of you choice of size after aging and toast to the level your looking for. Char if desired but read up on that subject when you can, if waiting on wood to season... you have plenty of time. lol

The wiki entry for live oak shows 31 different trees that fall under that name so who knows what you might have, if that is what you meant, and what it would produce.

Pretty sure live oak is a red oak species not a white one Test a small batch 1st as it may taste bad

gflower1 wrote:Can you use Live Oak to age?

I had to laugh.
I lived in Cajun Country LONG time ago so I know exactly what you meant by live oak.
It reminded me; when family/friends would come visit, they had a strange look on their face when I told them I HAD to show them this TREE!
Sorry For Your Loss.

Bamaberry wrote:

gflower1 wrote:Can you use Live Oak to age?

I had to laugh.
I lived in Cajun Country LONG time ago so I know exactly what you meant by live oak.
It reminded me; when family/friends would come visit, they had a strange look on their face when I told them I HAD to show them this TREE!
Sorry For Your Loss.

if you could enlighten me...so what's he mean live oak? and what does the picture have to with it? Why did you have to show them the tree? .... and what loss is y'all sorry for?

Damn, this whole post is waaay out of my wheelhouse here.

HDNB, I think you and I live in the wrong region for understanding the comment.

Another name for the Live Oak he's talking about is Evergreen Oak. Different species from Red or White.

As far as using it to age, I have no idea. You may have to be a pioneer on this one.

BayouShine wrote:Another name for the Live Oak he's talking about is Evergreen Oak. Different species from Red or White.

As far as using it to age, I have no idea. You may have to be a pioneer on this one.

Yep . It's damn fine for slow cooked BBQ . I think it is more akin to red oak and would be less desirable than white oak for ageing . Never tried it so that is just a guess .

Bushman wrote:HDNB, I think you and I live in the wrong region for understanding the comment.

Google Evangeline Summary (the Shmoop one)

Geoff

As a native Floridian, I can enlighten a little. Not in the way of uses, though.

At least in Florida, it is a protected tree. You have to get approval to remove one, and it better be dying. You plan, usually, around the oak root system. This is because of its extreme localized growing region.
Live oaks are the type of tree you visualize when you think of southern canopy covered paths that lead up to the plantation in all the movies.

This is the image each and every one of you all just had...
Anyways, I always liked to think the reason it is called Live oak is because when you cut the roots, it actually 'bleeds' a red like sap. But in actuality, it most likely got its name from the fact that it only loses its leaves in the spring, as the new ones are coming on. It's always "alive" and never has a dead leaf phase.

That is why I am sorry for your loss. Very symbolic tree for the south. Beautiful and majestic. Put her to good use, but most likely not in your likker.

ShineonCrazyDiamond wrote:As a native Floridian, I can enlighten a little. Not in the way of uses, though.

At least in Florida, it is a protected tree. You have to get approval to remove one, and it better be dying. You plan, usually, around the oak root system. This is because of its extreme localized growing region.

Quercus_virginiana_range_map_1.png

Live oaks are the type of tree you visualize when you think of southern canopy covered paths that lead up to the plantation in all the movies.

This is the image each and every one of you all just had...

Show Spoiler

img20170916_140516.jpg

Anyways, I always liked to think the reason it is called Live oak is because when you cut the roots, it actually 'bleeds' a red like sap. But in actuality, it most likely got its name from the fact that it only loses its leaves in the spring, as the new ones are coming on. It's always "alive" and never has a dead leaf phase.

That is why I am sorry for your loss. Very symbolic tree for the south. Beautiful and majestic. Put her to good use, but most likely not in your likker.

Oh Crazy you spoiled it.
Indeed in the DEEP South, they are HIGHLY protected.
People have been jailed for messing with them.
HDNB, you need to come down and check it out.

Bamaberry wrote:

ShineonCrazyDiamond wrote:As a native Floridian, I can enlighten a little. Not in the way of uses, though.

At least in Florida, it is a protected tree. You have to get approval to remove one, and it better be dying. You plan, usually, around the oak root system. This is because of its extreme localized growing region.

Quercus_virginiana_range_map_1.png

Live oaks are the type of tree you visualize when you think of southern canopy covered paths that lead up to the plantation in all the movies.

This is the image each and every one of you all just had...

Show Spoiler

img20170916_140516.jpg

Anyways, I always liked to think the reason it is called Live oak is because when you cut the roots, it actually 'bleeds' a red like sap. But in actuality, it most likely got its name from the fact that it only loses its leaves in the spring, as the new ones are coming on. It's always "alive" and never has a dead leaf phase.

That is why I am sorry for your loss. Very symbolic tree for the south. Beautiful and majestic. Put her to good use, but most likely not in your likker.

Oh Crazy you spoiled it.
Indeed in the DEEP South, they are HIGHLY protected.
People have been jailed for messing with them.
HDNB, you need to come down and check it out.

I just lost mine to the hurricaine very hard wood they grow slow and the big ones are hundreds of years old very tannic