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Primary: Biere de Garde
Secondary: Old Dirty Bastard, Cyser, Historical Porter w/ wood and Brett C
Barrels: Lambic, Flanders Red, Zinfandel Pyment, Imperial Stout, Scotch Ale
Kegged/lagering: Biere de Garde, Berliner Weisse, 1.134 Belgian Barleywine, Saison Brett, N German Alt, Biere de Mars
Bottled: Acerglyn, Bohemian Braggot, Biere de Noel
On Draft: Belgian Pomegranate, Belgian Golden Strong, Smoker in the Rye, Dark Mild, Dirty Blonde, German Pilsner, Dunkels Weissbier

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I have been dying to make a sour for awhile now. I'm jealous of you barrel owners

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olllllo

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You don't *need* a barrel to sour.

I suggest you get started!

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Getting ready to brew ~70 gallons of Wee Heavy on December 6th for our next barrel brew. This time we're hoping to score a Buffalo Trace or Maker's barrel.

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On tap/Kegged: Sweet Stout, 70/-, "10C" Dark Strong, Session Dubbel
Fermenting: Old Ale, Buffalo Trace Club Barrel Brew Wee Heavy, All Citra IPA, The Blonde Twins (001/3787 split), English Mild (1275/1882)
Planning: Barleywine, Belgian Dark Strong

ODaniel

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Hopefully sometime next year I will be able to put my Foreign Extra Stout in some good bourbon barrel. At work the old owner still has 7 Buffalo Trace barrels in our warehouse for some reason. I need to convince him to give me one or sell me one cheap.

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Kegged: Irish Red, Kentucky Common, Imperial Stout, Foreign Extra Stout (2)
Primary:Imperial Black Ale, American Pale Ale, Imperial IPA, Summer Wheat
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I have a brown porter that will go into mine soon. It's the second half of the same batch jezter6 has. I'll probably put it in after Thanksgiving.

3 Dog Brew

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Mine will be the 2010 batch of St. Bernard Christmas Ale that I will brew Thanksgiving weekend.

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Primary: 2011 St Bernard Christmas Ale
Secondary: Lemon/Ginger Metheglin
Aging: Old Dog Old Ale
On Tap: Rhodesian Red Ale
Bottled: Whatever was in the above list before
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SpanishCastleAle

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Might be worth a new thread but what adjustments do you make when brewing for barrel aging?

ABV- Higher gravity and higher alcohol? Since the alcohol will go down due to angel's share and since we're aging a beer for a while it seems to make sense. Is there a minimum ABV% you would brew for barrel aging? 6%? 7%? More? Sacc mentioned that the higher the ABV the faster the flavors seem to be extracted from the barrel.

Body - Should we adjust the body? Will the beer come out of the barrel with more/less/the same amount of body as when it went in? Seems losing some alcohol might have the perception of more body but I'm just guessing.

Sweetness - Adjust the sweetness to balance the wood/whiskey flavors?

Hops - Keep aroma/flavor additions on the low side so they're not 'in the way' or on the high-side since they'll mellow with all the aging?

Anything else?

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I have barrel envy. I did not get one from the group buy, but I do have a 1/3 share of the 65G lambic barrel project in Claphamsa's basement.

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Just for s**ts, I tossed a Black Project Stout into mine on Tuesday for 8 days. I need to pick up some Jim Beam to keep it wet until I figure what else to brew in it. I hope it picks up some slight oak and bourbon flavors.

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Barrel 1: Jim Beam
Secondary 1: Munich Helles
Keg 1: AHS Pumpkin Ale
Keg 2: AHS Imperial Oktoberfest/Marzen
Keg 3: Black Project Stout
Keg 4: Golden Celeia Pilsner
Keg 5: Chocolate Stout
Keg 6: Witguy Bier