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French Oak Cubes (Stavin) - Heavy Toast

French Oak Cubes (Stavin) - Heavy Toast

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Premium, Fire-Toasted Oak Cubes from Stavin

Heavy Toast French Oak will impart flavors of campfire, char & roasted coffee, with hints of vanilla, cinnamon and chocolate.

These fire-toasted oak cubes are as close as you can come to the full range of flavors you would get from aging your beer in a full sized barrel, unlike convection-toased cubes. 

The difference is that convection toasted cubes are made by cutting the stave to size, then passing the small cubes through a toasting chamber. Stavin fire-toasts their staves whole, just like they would when making a barrel, and then cuts them down to size. The result is a gradation of toasting from the surface through to the center of the cube, where each different toast level represents a different flavor set that the oak will give your beer. The result is a much more complex and natural profile; by comparison convection toasted cubes taste one dimensional.

Oak cubes also release their flavor into your beer more slowly than chips, giving you more control over the final degree of impact in your beer. You should plan on an extended aging period of 1-6 months when using cubes. This longer contact time again promotes flavor complexity by allowing all the flavors of the oak and your beer to marry.

Recommended Dosage is 2 oz per 5 gallons for impact equivalent to aging in a brand new oak barrel.

 

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SherryAnn B on Jul 26, 2022
works great for my malbec recipe
deep creek w on Dec 16, 2020
Making wine
SherryAnn B on Jul 26, 2022
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Hector e on Nov 4, 2021
works great for my malbec recipe
deep creek w on Dec 16, 2020
Need to put more French into my wine
Philip K. B on Nov 26, 2020
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David M. S on Oct 3, 2020
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Valued C on May 8, 2020
Adds a nice feel to a bold red
Barry W on Apr 28, 2020
I need to add some chocolate/coffee notes to a red wine.
craig M on Jan 14, 2020
Experimenting with oak infusion
Lauren G on Nov 5, 2019
Need to oak my wines
Nicholas F on Oct 14, 2019
I like to blend 1/2 cup of French along with 1 cup American oak
James C on Apr 25, 2018
works will in cabernet to give them quicker age flavor
deep creek w on Mar 22, 2018
Price
Hector e on Nov 4, 2021
Need to put more French into my wine
Philip K. B on Nov 26, 2020
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Works great
These work great. I was very happy.
October 2, 2022
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over 3 years ago
Rated 5 out of 5
Perfect, love the size of the cubes
May 21, 2020
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over 4 years ago