Whats up everyone!
I am about to venture in to by first "big" beer and wanted to get people's thoughts and insight. I am planning on a nice barley wine with a lot of kick. I am going to do a 3.25 gallon extract. The recipe is as follows:
6# Pale Extract
3# Amber Extract
1.25# Melanoiden
1# Light Munich
.5# Carapils
.5# Crystal 30
.25# Carabohemian
1.25# Grade A Maple Syrup 5 min
1.5oz Warrior 60 min
.8oz Fuggles 15 min
I plan to do a 90 minute boil. I did the calculation for 3.25 Gallons and hope to end up with 3 gallons packaged after trub loss. I also plan to secondary on top of 4 ozs of toasted oak chips. According to Beersmith the OG comes out to 1.117! I have a healthy starter of WPL001 brewing and have a vial of WLP099 on standby if necessary. Going to add some extra yeast nutrients and hit it with 3 minutes of O2 prior to pitching the starter. This is my first recipe that I have come up with on my own.....hopefully it turns out well. My guess is that this will need some serious age. Thanks!!
I am about to venture in to by first "big" beer and wanted to get people's thoughts and insight. I am planning on a nice barley wine with a lot of kick. I am going to do a 3.25 gallon extract. The recipe is as follows:
6# Pale Extract
3# Amber Extract
1.25# Melanoiden
1# Light Munich
.5# Carapils
.5# Crystal 30
.25# Carabohemian
1.25# Grade A Maple Syrup 5 min
1.5oz Warrior 60 min
.8oz Fuggles 15 min
I plan to do a 90 minute boil. I did the calculation for 3.25 Gallons and hope to end up with 3 gallons packaged after trub loss. I also plan to secondary on top of 4 ozs of toasted oak chips. According to Beersmith the OG comes out to 1.117! I have a healthy starter of WPL001 brewing and have a vial of WLP099 on standby if necessary. Going to add some extra yeast nutrients and hit it with 3 minutes of O2 prior to pitching the starter. This is my first recipe that I have come up with on my own.....hopefully it turns out well. My guess is that this will need some serious age. Thanks!!