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Title: White Wood?
Post by: ArnaudForestier on January 30, 2011, 05:16:49 PM

Very close to laying down my first aged cheeses.  I haven't seen anything on this, but plan to use white wood, rough-hewn, for my shelving.  I believe it's any one of pine or spruce species.  Before committing to it -thoughts? 

Something about spruce appeals, from days making Koduõlu (beer, typically lautered through juniper bows and runoff through hollowed spruce logs - known in Finland as sahti (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/148)) in the style of Saarema, Estonia, in homage to my wife's grandad, a great son of Estonia.  (Our pup is named "Olu."  "Beer."  'nuff said).  That said, want a neutral shelving, so not sure if for some reason pine or spruce would lend an undesired resinous character (would have thought so, but see so many caves with pine).

Title: Re: White Wood?
Post by: Oude Kaas on January 31, 2011, 02:25:36 AM

Spruce would be great, pine would do too.

Title: Re: White Wood?
Post by: ArnaudForestier on January 31, 2011, 02:58:16 AM

OK, great, thanks, Oude. :)