Brewpastor
Beer, not rocket chemistry
I have some friends and we decided to make a memorable beer to lay down for a couple years. We decided a bourbon barley wine would fit the bill.
I had read about reiterated mashing and thought that would be fun to try so we did a triple mash using all Golden Promise and a truck load of hops (mostly in the C family). The mashing took all day, but the results are crazy. I got an OG of 1.142 and the wort was a great golden color. We made 30 gallons. I fermented it cool and slow, raising the temperature near the end. It finished at 1.036.
The plan had been to brew a second batch and put it in a bourbon barrel, but I really did not want a barrel. I ended up buying a 30 gallon cornie type tank and we added a fifth of bourbon and some American oak cubes.
The yeast was a large slurry of 1056 from a local micro. I aerated with O2 inline and gave it a couple blasts of C)2 along the way to "stir" things up. It will sit for a while in the cold room and some day down the road it will all get bottled and waxed.
Anyway, that is my latest brew. I will let you know how it came out in a year or two!
I had read about reiterated mashing and thought that would be fun to try so we did a triple mash using all Golden Promise and a truck load of hops (mostly in the C family). The mashing took all day, but the results are crazy. I got an OG of 1.142 and the wort was a great golden color. We made 30 gallons. I fermented it cool and slow, raising the temperature near the end. It finished at 1.036.
The plan had been to brew a second batch and put it in a bourbon barrel, but I really did not want a barrel. I ended up buying a 30 gallon cornie type tank and we added a fifth of bourbon and some American oak cubes.
The yeast was a large slurry of 1056 from a local micro. I aerated with O2 inline and gave it a couple blasts of C)2 along the way to "stir" things up. It will sit for a while in the cold room and some day down the road it will all get bottled and waxed.
Anyway, that is my latest brew. I will let you know how it came out in a year or two!