Soluble Oak™ & Craft Beer
Instant Mouthfeel and Delicate Oak Profile
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Best beers with Soluble Oak: Lager, Pilsner, Red Ale, Brown Ale, English Ale, Porter, & most European styles.
Completely authentic oak taste, like it’s been aged in oak for a long time, and has an amazing mouthfeel.
New Frontiers for Barrel Aged Beers
With a minimal amount of Soluble Oak™ beer is transformed to have a soft, silky and round mouthfeel. With a slightly greater addition, the natural aromatic and oak profile begin to emerge. Soluble Oak™ is transformative in most styles of beers (from dark to amber to light).
How Craft Brew Experts Are Describing The Taste:
Crème Brulé, toffee, butter scotch, banana pudding, cinnamon, oak (of course), cream of wheat and toasted bread.
Skip the Hassle & Wait of Barrel Aging
Results are instantaneous. Soluble Oak™ is added post fermentation.
Mouthfeel
Soluble Oak™ breaks new ground in craft beer – rounding sharp edges, presenting a quality of unity, while offering varied levels of oak presence.
Beer is Not Good at Extracting Oak
Given beer’s low alcohol content, only a small range of oak compounds can be extracted within barrels. Mainly, the highly leachable/water-soluble tannic acids are extracted, and themost prized compounds, such as vannalins, caramel, cinnamon and oak lactones are not extracted (those which are present are mostly a leftover from the barrel’s previous occupant). Soluble Oak™ stands alone in giving beer the full palette of the best of oak – almost instantly.
Don’t Use Used Barrels - Why Live Off The Leftovers Of The Previous Occupant?
Our view is that beer and oak should not be limited to repurposed barrels, which carry the taste of its lingering predecessor, and only impart limited oak flavors. Great beer shouldn’t live off hand-me-downs, of which the prior occupant has already stripped the best flavors. Many of the 200+ molecules in oak are highly leachable, and some of the choicest flavors and the natural chemical magic has long left (Save the tannins!).
Back to Our Roots
Oak barrels and beer are old school. Barrels were first introduced by the Celts in 350 BC, and have had a long history of storing beer (just ask George Washington). Barrel-aged beer re-emerged in 1992, when Greg Hall of Goose Island used re-purposed Jim Beam bourbon barrels and introduced the wildly popular Bourbon County Stout.
“Side note: 100+ years ago before the blight, chestnut barrels were often used to store beer (stay tuned!).”
Traditional Barrel Aging (Don't Look Back)
- Slow
- Expensive
- Labor-intensive
- Unpredictable
- Not Sustainable
Scalable
Soluble Oak™ is added post fermentation. It requires no changes to existing infrastructure, and is scalable for large production.
Sustainable Oak
Through scientific innovation, we pioneered an environmentally sustainable alternative to barrel aging which uses 96% less oak, and protects majestic old oak trees. Learn how you can be part of the Sustainable Oak stewardship program.
Which beers go best with Soluble Oak?
Mission
Our work is the uncompromised pursuit of pristine White Oak flavor. Our purpose is to help you produce even more outstanding craft beer with Sustainable Oak.
Craft Beer & Sustainable Oak
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Craft Beer – 20ml
$10.00 – $12.00 This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Craft Beer – 1 Liter
$110.00 – $125.00 This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Craft Beer – 5 Liters
$450.00 – $550.00 This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
