Have you been to a hunter United Brewers club meeting yet? We meet at Hamilton north bowling club on the third Friday of each month, next meeting is the 19th August at 630pm, should be plenty of guys that can help you out there.
Apologies if you are already a member and I don't know your forum name
Hunter United Brewers club has a style of the month coming up for Alt Bier, I'm pretty wet behind the ears when it comes to this style, so hit me with some suggestions or recipes
Cheers
I brewed a porter and I racked it onto 50g of rum chips (that I had soaked in 200ml of spiced rum for 6 days first) in a 23litre batch, I didn't take the chips out of the rum before racking either. I left it on there for 8 days before bottling. Result was nice almost red wine type of oak flavour...