These products can be used
in any industry that needs to obtain a product with high
complexity flavors and aromas replacing oak barrels.
The main consumers of these products are the wine, vinegar
and liquor industry, to name a few.
Oak chips are an alternative to the more expensive barrel,
if what you are searching for is to give a product the
characteristics oak provide. Staves transmit aromas and
tannins, especially when they are manufactured with the
same wood as the barrels; such is the case of AROBOIS
chips. One advantage of this product is that they contain
very little air, in comparison to the barrels.
After two or three uses, a barrel looses all its properties
so it stops contributing aromas and flavors to the wine.
If you put oak chips into these very same barrels you
are extending their life and are able to profit the
barrels for a longer period of time.
The different toasts allow different aromas and flavor
to develop in the oak. Light and medium toasts will
give vanilla flavors, while the strong toast will contribute
a flavor similar to smoke.
The ideal way to use chips is combining different levels
of toast to try to obtain the complexity of flavor and
aromas that an oak barrel aged product has.
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