Wood infused liquid consumables

A method of producing a wood infused liquid consumable, the method comprising the step of contacting a liquid consumable in a container with one or more wooden components so that a uniform wood infusion process occurs;

• wherein the one or more wooden components are severed parts of an intermediate wooden sheet cut from a log of wood by rotary peeling the intermediate wooden sheet tangentially from an outer surface of a log of wood in veneer fashion;
• the cutting method resulting in (i) ray parenchyma tissue extending longitudinally across a thickness of the wooden components and (ii) wood cells in the one or more wooden components having a uniform anatomical cell orientation;
• wherein the permeable ray parenchyma tissue that extends longitudinally across the thickness of the wooden components provides the liquid consumable with enhanced access to the extractive wood storing tissues during the infusion process relative to wooden components cut using other techniques;
• and
• wherein the uniform cell orientation of the wooden sheets provides uniformity of infusion during contact with the liquid consumable and uniformity of different wooden components, thus enabling consistency and reproducibility of results from batch to batch in the liquid consumable production process.