I need input on this recipe

Here is the recipe courtesy of hopville

http://hopville.com/recipe/55767/home-brew/heavy-red-ale

My friends are asking me to make a brew with high alcohol but I don't want to do a true barley wine

Do you think this recipe will be ok with the Honey and the Corn sugar?

I would add two more pounds of malt and only one of the other. Two pounds of honey and Corn sugar is too much for me.

ross3648 said:

Two pounds of honey and Corn sugar is too much for me.

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Yeah but why

My thinking is that it should ferment out clean and not leave the gravity of malt extract behind

I wouldn't steep Victory.

944play said:

I wouldn't steep Victory.

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Again - Why?

Please give reasons

blowmax10 said:

Yeah but why

My thinking is that it should ferment out clean and not leave the gravity of malt extract behind

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Because it's 6 pounds of extract and 4 pounds of simple sugar. That's a really high % of sugar. A pound or so would be fine, but boosting up the ABV with that much sugar and that little malt wouldn't taste very good.

944play said:

I wouldn't steep Victory.

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Because victory malt is a malt that must be mashed.

Sometimes making a high ABV beer is tricky, and if you don't really know the ingredients and what each bring to the beer, I'd suggest sticking with a "tried and true" recipe. A high ABV beer also has more chances of a stuck fermentation, needs a bigger starter, may have carbonation issues, needs a higher attenuating yeast, etc.

That recipe doesn't look very good to me. It's got an OG of 1.097, but only 43 IBUs? I'd keep looking.