Anyone done the 1868 Younger No. 3?

[Trail]

I've been eyeing this recipe up recently:

http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2011/09/lets-brew-wednesday-1868-younger-no-3.html

Looks tasty, but when I plugged the hop schedule into Beersmith I got 1.076 OG and 94.1 IBUs! Now, I love me some barleywine, but I can't say I've seen anything hopped so high without a higher OG. Has anyone brewed this? Is there something wrong with my math? Please advise!

 

[mooney]

I know it is an old post. I brewed the 1879 version yesterday. My og was 1.086 with 23l in the the fermenter so I don't know what went wrong there. I'll see how it goes but I don't think it will be 5.16% .

 

[Northern_Brewer]

when I plugged the hop schedule into Beersmith I got 1.076 OG and 94.1 IBUs! Now, I love me some barleywine, but I can't say I've seen anything hopped so high without a higher OG. Has anyone brewed this? Is there something wrong with my math? Please advise!

Welcome to the world of proper Scottish ales, although at 94IBU you were under-hopping it, looks like you weren't allowing for different alpha values in your hops?

I know it is an old post. I brewed the 1879 version yesterday. My og was 1.086 with 23l in the the fermenter so I don't know what went wrong there.

From memory most of Ron's recipes assume a fairly conservative brewhouse efficiency of 70%, so it's not hard to get a higher efficiency particularly if you have a reasonably-efficient sparging regime.

 

[Trail]

Welcome to the world of proper Scottish ales, although at 94IBU you were under-hopping it, looks like you weren't allowing for different alpha values in your hops?



From memory most of Ron's recipes assume a fairly conservative brewhouse efficiency of 70%, so it's not hard to get a higher efficiency particularly if you have a reasonably-efficient sparging regime.

In 2015 I was quite new to AG brewing and didn't understand different AA values. The situation has improved somewhat since then.

I'll have to give the recipe a try sometime. Still haven't gotten around to it!