So on top of the crazy fermentation, you'd have a task ahead of you with the barrel aging process (or at least faking said process)."Samuel Adams Utopias was brewed at a very high gravity using a wide variety of malted barley and a touch of maple syrup. It was then fermented and conditioned in a blend of scotch, bourbon, port and cognac casks for up to ten months using a pair of proprietary yeast strains we developed at our Boston Brewery."
the_bird said:How much (if any) simple sugars did you use? Don't the Utopias have a fair amount of maple syrup in them?
Funkenjaeger said:I think the recipe is the least of your worries... But for that matter I wonder if anyone has come up with a (good) recipe for it, since so few people have tried it and VERY few homebrewers have experience brewing super-high-gravity beers...
Show off!!!janzik said:I've got nothing to add to this thread other than the fact that you inspired me to go pour myself a cordial of it... thanks!
Suffice it to say that if you are not a VERY experienced homebrewer, you had probably better give up on the idea, especially since the ingredient costs for a batch of it would be astronomical, making a (likely) failure pretty painful.
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