French oak chips provide a mild oak flavour including hints of sweet vanilla. Oak chips are a fast and economical way to add oak barrel flavour to any beer, spirit or wine without having to wait a year while your product matures in a high maintenance oak barrel.

These oak chips are made from genuine natural oak staves which are open air-seasoned for a minimum of two years, they are then chipped down and lightly toasted to replicate the flavours you'd get from a lightly toasted barrel.

The level of toasting creates different flavours rather than differences in oak intensity, with darker toasting resulting in more caramelised flavour whereas a light toast results in a much more mild flavour being imparted into the beer, spirit or wine.

Dosage rate: 10-15g per litre is suggested, however, the quantity can be varied to produce different flavours and levels of oak intensity.

Contact time: a few days up to 3 months.

Flavour profile: Vanilla, spice, mild oak.