Innerstave is driven by the singular goal of assisting winemakers, brewers and distillers to achieve the new barrel oak flavor characteristics they seek by bringing oak to the beverage. Innerstave invented the new barrel oak alternatives industry in 1979 by adding a variety of oak staves, cubes and chips to existing barrels. Since that time, by listening to the changing tastes of our customers and through constant innovation, we have remained the industry leader.
Oak barrel alternatives and oak adjuncts offer the benefits of premium new oak barrels – enhanced beverage color, mouthfeel, structure and complexity – without incurring new barrel costs.
Experimenting with American and French Oak Alternatives
Innerstave seasons our American and French oak products in our dedicated seasoning and toasting yard located in Sonoma, California. Our close proximity to San Francisco Bay’s water, wind and fog offers a microflora found nowhere else on earth, making our premium oak flavor profiles distinctive and unique.
For more than forty years, makers have used Innerstave oak barrel alternatives and oak adjuncts to expand their oak spice rack flavor profiles.
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Premium American Oak – Quercus Alba
Our oak products are convection oven toasted rather than hand-fired, enabling us to provide exceptionally consistent results for winemakers, brewers and distillers, year after year.
American Medium Toast – Provides complex, pleasantly mild and delicate toasted oak characters and aromas of vanilla, caramel, chocolate, with a touch of coconut and clove. The flavors provide sweetness, creaminess and roundness to the mouthfeel with a lingering non-aggressive toast character.
American Medium Plus Toast – Provides complex, pleasant and well defined toasted oak characters and aromas of vanilla, toffee, butterscotch, mocha, graham cracker, with a touch of coconut, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove. The flavors provide sweetness, creaminess and roundness to the mouthfeel with a lingering pronounced toast character.
Premium French Oak – Quercus Sessilis
We have been working with the same trusted providers in central France for more than forty years. Our oak products are convection oven toasted rather than hand-fired, enabling us to provide consistent results for winemakers, brewers and distillers, year after year.
Revere Oak™ MEDIUM TOAST – Seasoned for 36 months and specialty toasted, providing characters and aromas of vanilla, caramel, brown sugar, baker’s spice, cinnamon, maple syrup, and chocolate, along with elegant, silky tannins.
Revere Oak™ MEDIUM PLUS TOAST – Seasoned for 36 months and specialty toasted, providing characters and aromas of robust vanilla, dark chocolate, mocha, cinnamon, amber honey with oatmeal, roasted hazelnuts and smoke. This toast offers a full, creamy, velvety mouthfeel.
Revere Oak™ PLUS PLUS TOAST – Seasoned for 36 months and specialty toasted, providing characters and aromas of dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, spice (clove, nutmeg, cinnamon), dark maple syrup, dark brown sugar, molasses, and slight smoky bacon. This toast offers depth and smooth, lingering tannins.
Premium French Oak Flavor Profiles
French Oak Untoasted – Provides rich, round, mid palate and sweetness, reduces vegetal characters.
French Oak Light Toast – Provides oak structure without being overwhelming, lifting the varietal’s attributes and allowing the fruit to shine. The flavors offer delicate sweetness, prominent oak spice, with a vibrant fruit-driven finish.
French Oak Medium Toast – Provides complex, pleasant and delicate toasted oak characters and aromas of vanilla, caramel, chocolate, hazelnut, oatmeal with honey, graham cracker, with a touch of cinnamon and nutmeg. The flavors offer sweetness, creaminess and roundness to the mouthfeel with a lingering non-aggressive toast character.
French Oak Medium Plus Toast – Provides complex, pleasant and well defined toasted oak characters and aromas of vanilla, toffee, butterscotch, chocolate, coffee, mocha, graham cracker, with a touch of nutmeg and clove. The flavors offer sweetness, creaminess and roundness and depth to the mouthfeel with a lingering pronounced toast character.
French Oak Plus Plus Toast – Provides complex, pleasant and well defined toasted oak characters and aromas of maple syrup, dark chocolate, coffee, nutmeg, clove, with a touch of smoked meat character. The flavors offer sweetness with a nice pronounced spice, creaminess and roundness to the mouthfeel with a lingering pronounced toast character.
Exclusive Brewer & Distiller Products
Barrel Innerstave is designed to impart oak flavor at the same rate as new premium oak barrels. The system works within the framework of a comprehensive barrel program to augment total premium oak flavor profiles, while moderating the higher cost of purchasing all new barrels. Learn more.
Fan Innerstave is for use in a neutral oak barrel. Each Fan Innerstave set contains 20 square feet of premium oak wood, replicating 100% of the surface area of a 225L barrel and providing similar extraction as a new premium oak barrel. The set is designed for easy attachment in tanks that contain fan system hardware.
Fan Innerstave gives brewers and distillers the opportunity to obtain premium oak barrel character in larger vessels. Fan Innerstave provides significant cost saving over traditional premium oak barrels, yet achieves the same result.
Oak Cubes are intended for the brewer or distiller who desires premium barrel flavors in their stainless steel tanks. The 15 lb. mesh bag of oak cubes contains approximately 68.10 square feet of surface area. It can be placed in the tank and allowed to float freely or tied down.
Oak cubes can also be inserted into used barrels to replenish oak flavors by using an oak infusion tube.
is a self-installed “through the bunghole” oak flavor profile delivery system designed by Innerstave to benefit those brewers and distillers who do not require 100% new barrel oak flavor. This system is brewer/distiller installed and versatile. Brewers and distillers can vary the number of oak links in the chain to obtain the desired oak impact. Each chain imparts one-third the amount of oak flavor of a new barrel oak.
Stave Vault is a stainless steel structure designed to fit inside smaller tanks and vessels to impart new oak flavor profiles. It can give beer or spirits up to 4 times new barrel impact to allow flexibility in new oak addition rates. Brewers and distillers can choose from French or American oak staves available in all toast levels to create custom flavor profiles.
Stave Vault can be used in any stage of brewing or distilling and provides up to 80 square feet of oak surface when fully loaded. Stave Vault is easily inserted and removed with a forklift. The flavor profile possibilities are endless with Stave Vault.
