[NickPurr]

not sure where to post this but, I want to brew a Weizenbock for October fest and i was thinking of adding a hickory stave in secondary. anyone have any experience in this. I was wondering how the hickory would add to, or change the overall flavor of the Weizenbock.

[majorvices]

I have never used hickory but I plan to. I doubt you will find a hickory stave since there are no hickory barrels and hickory can not be used in bbl making. But if you want top add hickory chips toast them first. This will help add flavor to the beer and will caramelize the sugars in the wood and sanitize the wood as well.

for wood toasting here is a great diagram.

[NickPurr]

I doubt you will find a hickory stave

I found some honeycomb staves for sale http://www.homebrewing.org/Hickory-Honey-Comb-Barrel-Alternative-_p_3743.html and I was going to toast it a bit, thanks for the diagram.