Wood chips are a very common method most home brewers use. Also Budweiser is beechwood aged using chips [1], and is hardly unique in using chips (though rarely

Wood chips are a very common method most home brewers use. Also Budweiser is beechwood aged using chips [1], and is hardly unique in using chips (though rarely does anyone else use beechwood). For the most part people like high age counts for the same reason they want high megapixel counts, it is a comparable number that gives them at least the illusion of control, and rational differentiation. 1: http://anheuser-busch.com/index.php/our-heritage/commitment-to-quality/brewing-process/ http://anheuser-busch.com/index.php/our-heritage/commitment-... (agewall)