FRENCH OAK - CHIPS

Provides complex, pleasant and well defined toasted oak characters and aromas of vanilla, toffee, butterscotch, chocolate, coffee, mocha, graham cracker, with a touch of nutmeg and clove. The flavours offer sweetness, creaminess and roundness and depth to the mouthfeel with a lingering pronounced toast character.

Millside Maturation Woods are imported directly from Innerstave in the United States of America.

Innerstave oak barrel alternatives and oak adjuncts have been used for more than forty years by winemakers to expand their oak spice rack flavour profiles. More recently, brewers and distillers have been turning to Innerstave to help them break new ground.

Innerstave’s proximity to San Francisco Bay’s microflora makes their premium new French oak barrel flavour profiles distinctive and unique, so does their sourcing of oak trees. Innerstave has been working with the same trusted providers in central France for more than forty years. Their oak products are convection oven toasted rather than hand-fired, enabling them to provide consistent results for winemakers, brewers and distillers, year after year.

Innerstave Chips can be used during fermentation and will minimize undesirable vegetal characters, provide co-pigmentation to bind colour and give body and mouthfeel. Innerstave Chips can be added during aging and offers tannin, body and true premium barrel flavours. A small amount added just prior to bottling will lift the flavour to refresh the finished oak character.