Description

Essencia Bourbon Barrel Chunks are made from wet, freshly-emptied, bourbon-soaked American White Oak bourbon barrels (not dry barrels like cheaper staves and chips).Essencia Bourbon Barrel Chunks can be used to rapidly barrel-age neutral spirit or vodka, bourbon, whiskey or beer.  We recommend a process of soaking, draining and filtering.  You can test along the way, or blend different batches to your own taste.

SUGGESTION FOR USE

1. Soak in 2L of spirit for 10 days
2. Putting the Chunks in a straining bag while soaking them makes the draining process easier. It also reduces the amount of sediment carried over to the filtering phase. A small – fine straining bag is ideal. After draining the Chunks, allow the sediment to settle for a few hours before filtering as this sediment clogs the filter and slows down the process a lot. Ideally the sediment is left until the end of filtering.
3. For filtering use a coffee filter paper in a funnel, or 2 x cotton wool balls pushed down the neck of a large funnel. This process should take time. The product should only drip out of the filter.