Oak shavings from Theakston's Brewery Yesterday I went up to Theakston’s brewery who let us have oak chippings to smoke our cheese.  I met the cooper who makes their barrels who told me that he had been getting hold of whisky barrels and planing them down. The sacks of shavings smelled absolutely gorgeous, a heady mix of whisky and oak.  As we have recently been putting the smoker on twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, we really needed these shavings.  We empt