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Blue razz rancher plus a sweet potato brew
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Quick and diry guide to fermenting fruit - cider and wine
a 5 gallon barrel will impart a ton of wood character to your beer really quickly (compared to a 55 gal or 225L barrel) due to the wood surface area to beer volume ratio. You probably wouldn't want to put a stout into one for an entire year, at least not right away, maybe once you've sent a number of beers through it and stripped out a lot of the wood character from the barrel...
One way to find out, right? Thanks for the info though! Think I’ll play it by ear or maybe do the wood chips like someone else mentioned, at least until I get enough space for a nice wood barrel room lol
Wood chips work well, you can also get cubes, that impart the character a bit more slowly, and a lot of people swear by them over chips.