So I brewed this recipe up on Saturday, April 25th.
16 lbs American 2 row
5 lbs Maris Otter
1 lb Victory
1lb Vienna
.5 lb Aromatic
.5 Chocolate Rye
Yeast was Wyeast's Scottish Ale 1728.
I don't have my notes on me currently but the hops were about 5 oz of a mixed combo additions (60, 25, 10, flameout) of Chinook, Centennial, Columbus, Nugget, Amarillo and Galena. Planning on dry hopping about an 2 oz of that same mix towards the end of the long period of bulk-aging.
However, being slightly under the influence toward the end of my brew day, I decided to get crazy and add a raspberry and honey puree from last years frozen raspberry harvest from my garden into a 1 gallon carboy. I had a minimal amount left over that I tossed in my 5 gallon carboy as well. I was curious if anybody has ever done this with a barleywine in their homebrew before with reasonable results? The only commercial beer I can find that is similar to this is Berkshire's Raspberry Barleywine, with decent but mixed reviews. (FYI, I'm aware that this recipe probably floats more between the line of DIPA and Barleywine, so no need for any technical correction on that end. Just a weird experimental beer this time around).
16 lbs American 2 row
5 lbs Maris Otter
1 lb Victory
1lb Vienna
.5 lb Aromatic
.5 Chocolate Rye
Yeast was Wyeast's Scottish Ale 1728.
I don't have my notes on me currently but the hops were about 5 oz of a mixed combo additions (60, 25, 10, flameout) of Chinook, Centennial, Columbus, Nugget, Amarillo and Galena. Planning on dry hopping about an 2 oz of that same mix towards the end of the long period of bulk-aging.
However, being slightly under the influence toward the end of my brew day, I decided to get crazy and add a raspberry and honey puree from last years frozen raspberry harvest from my garden into a 1 gallon carboy. I had a minimal amount left over that I tossed in my 5 gallon carboy as well. I was curious if anybody has ever done this with a barleywine in their homebrew before with reasonable results? The only commercial beer I can find that is similar to this is Berkshire's Raspberry Barleywine, with decent but mixed reviews. (FYI, I'm aware that this recipe probably floats more between the line of DIPA and Barleywine, so no need for any technical correction on that end. Just a weird experimental beer this time around).
