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stalewater · 08-01-2012, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by mrdauber64

Midwest Supplies has a SN Bigfoot Barley wine clone, more of an American Barley wine though. I brewed this one in November, transferred it to secondary ontop of oak cubes and let it sit for 7 months before bottlling it last week. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=&q=bigfoot

Have you tried a sample yet, how did it taste, and did you use thier kit or go to your homebrew shop to get the ingredients

stalewater · 08-01-2012, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by JollyIsTheRoger

Try this http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/can-you-brew-recipe-stone-old-guardian-178349/

Do you know anyone who has tried to make this.

mrdauber64 · 08-01-2012, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by stalewater

Have you tried a sample yet, how did it taste, and did you use thier kit or go to your homebrew shop to get the ingredients

I used the extract kit since I don't have a mash tun big enough to handle that much grains.

I tried a sample of it before adding the oak in January and it was pretty close to the SN Bigfoot, maybe a little hoppier since it was so young when I tried it. I also tried it last week at bottling and the hoppiness subsided quite a bit, it was still bitter but the malts and the oakiness really stared to shine through. It ended up ending at 10% but it did not have an alchol burn at all. I'll be cracking open my first bottle in November,exactly one year after brewing it.

stalewater · 08-04-2012, 04:13 PM

No one else?

**JollyIsTheRoger** · 08-05-2012, 03:13 AM

Just pick one and have fun with it, the recipe isn't that important its mostly process anyway. The Old Guardian should be good since you said you liked Americans

stalewater · 08-08-2012, 09:01 PM

So anyone who was intrested in this thread i didnt get much help on here so i went a few more avenues and came up with a pretty good receipe here it is im gonna try it out and hope for the best

24# Base Malt (2 Row, Maris or Golden Promise depending on your preference)
1# Caramel 10
1# Carmel 80
1/4# Pale Chocolate
1/4# Special B

2oz Apollo @ 60
1oz Columbus @ 20
2oz Cascade @ 10
3oz Cascade @ 0

Dry Hop with Columbus and/or Cascade

Yeast: I'd recommend a big starter of your favorite American Ale yeast

Let me know if you have any questions. This should come in around 12% to 13%.
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Got some help from my boys at rebel brewer and we came up with this

stalewater · 08-08-2012, 09:03 PM

Now its a five gallon grist but im gonna parti gyle this bad boy, i plan on brewing it here in a week or to and i will keep updating this to let you guys know how it comes out. Wish me luck CHEERS!!

**ylpaul2000** · 08-08-2012, 10:35 PM

I your going English style your going to have to bump up the boil time, 90 minutes at least. You just won't get the barley wine flavor you want out of a 60 minute boil. Trust me I do 5-6 batches of barley wine a year.

stalewater · 08-09-2012, 02:48 PM

This is supposed to be an american barley wine, i usually do 90 min boils on alot of my beer to get the gravity where i want what i plan on doing is boil for 30 min then add my 60 min addition

ddrrseio · 08-09-2012, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ylpaul2000

I your going English style your going to have to bump up the boil time, 90 minutes at least. You just won't get the barley wine flavor you want out of a 60 minute boil. Trust me I do 5-6 batches of barley wine a year.

care to share your recipe? i have had a barleywine in the queue for a while but didn't want to begin until i had something that looked pretty reliable