Brewed up a Winter Warmer Sunday, yeah I know, wrong time of year, but the plan is to age them on oak cubes.
5Gal batch, split into 2. Half on American Oak, Heavy Toast, soaked in bourbon, the other half on French Oak, Heavy Toast, soaked in Cuban Rum.
Question is, how much do I use? Packages the cubes come in are 3.5oz, do I use them all? Or just part of them? Or does it matter. And, can you use them more than once? Should I put them in something? Or just drop them in. They are cubes, so I don't think they are going to give off many little pieces that will get into the beer.
Going to leave them soak for about a week, I have heard some people that will just dump the soaked cubes in the secondary, but have also heard of people that dumped the cubes, and the booze they were soaking in, into the secondary for some extra umph.