Attempting 40%+ ABV beer... "Barley Brandy"

[Hex]

I look like a ziplock full of mayonaisse.

You could do something about that. I yoga. Good luck with your brew, you've got a bunch of beer fans rooting for you!:rockin:

 

[Cape Brewing]

Nah... That would take effort


Grains conditioning, pots almost at strike temp.

 

[lordbeermestrength]

Yup... It was brought up. I am planning on bringing it down to -6ish in my regular freezer and then packing it in a cooler with dry ice. I am planning on then slowly stirring it almost like an ice cream maker to bring the solution down even further and hopefully give me the cold temp I need.

If you can get it a little colder (-40 range) you would be able to burn it as a fuel... just sayin'

 

[Cape Brewing]

Mashnin complete. 147

 

[Cape Brewing]

90 minute mash (and a few extra minutes) and am running off slowly.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Runnin the spahdge off

 

[Hex]

Nah... That would take effort

Making beer is easy?

 

[BrewN00b]

Do you pull rice hulls in a grain bill that make to make your sparging easier? I imagine a wort of that viscosity has a propensity to stick.

This thread is aweome, I just wish I could actually participate. When i say participate I mean drink all your beer.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Yup. Beers a piece a cake..


Overshot my OG. LOL

I have 11 gallons of 1060 and am coming up to a boil. Was boiling down to 3 gallons. Mathematically thats gonna give me 3 gallon at 1220. I was shooting for 3 at 1213. And I havent added any syrup yet.

Fermenters for the IIIPa cleaned. Goinf to sanitize tem, rack the IIIPA and then i am going to dump the yeast cake into a sterlized carboy. Might actually wash it once as well. I'll then dump the U batch on that cake with a ton of oxygen.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Used rice hulls but didnt need them. I use them out of habit.

And this wort was nothing special at all. Contrary to how PTN makes it sound, this is a really easy beer to brew. All I did was create 11 gallons pf 1060 wort... Nothing special there at all.

Now I am simply boiling down to three gallons. My kettle will run for about three hours and I'll chill.

Nothing really difficult about it.

Now.... The fermenting... THATS the trick

 

[bill42]

so are you still going to boil down to 3 gallons with the higher gravity....or are you going to boil down to the gravity you wanted, leaving you with more wort

 

[Cape Brewing]

Havent decided yet. I want it to dry out as much as possible and a 1213 dried out to say, 1025, is about 26% ABV.... Which... Is over what the 099 can do already...

And its not like I think I'll get that low but i want to get down as far as possible.

Uhhh... I'll probably overshoot volume.

 

[Cape Brewing]

Down to about 8.5 gallons

 

[Gwitz]

Have you posted an ingredients list for this madness yet?

 

[Cape Brewing]

7.5 gallons.


Will do that right now. One second

 

[Cape Brewing]

"Barley Brandy"

22 lb Two-Row
4 lb Six-row
1.6 lb Munich 10L
1.5 lb Rauch
1.2 lb Crystal 60
.4 lb Melanoidin
.5 OZ Peated (I couldn't resist)

.8 OZ Spalt 90 Min
.8 Oz Tettnag 90 Min
.8 Oz Hallertau 15 min
.8 Oz Hallertau 1 Min

11 gallons boiled down to 3...

Est OG approx 1.220

 

[BrewN00b]

You put in a half OZ of peated malt? You rolling blunts with that malt and instead just decide to huck it into your mash tun instead? Thats about, what, 50 kernals?

At least you don't have to worry about overwhelming the beer with peat flavor.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Nice thread! Are there going to be pics involved?

 

[Cape Brewing]

Just dropped it into a santized cahboy and waiting foe cauboy of washed IIIPA yeast to completely crash out and yhen I'll rack the U onto it with some oxygen. Brew day cpuldnt have gone more perfect and I've been at a cookput most of the afternoon.


Not sure why PTN needs a whole event for this.

 

[bill42]

so how many gallons you end up with at what gravity?

 

[Cape Brewing]

About 4 gallons so as lomg as I am close to 1200 I'll be happy and,
mathatically I should be close. I am at a neighbor hood cookout so I will take a final final OG when I get home.

 

[bob1852]

Cape's so bad ass he can make a 1.200 beer without even being present!

Try that one PTN.

How long to boil 11 down to 3-4? I'm assuming you kicked up the burner as hot as possible because you wanted to maximize boil-off rate?

 

[bill42]

bad ass

 

[motobrewer]

Brew day cpuldnt have gone more perfect and I've been at a cockput most of the afternoon.

my only question....

where did you put it!?

 

[bill42]

not questioning, just curious, 11g boiled down to 3.5g in 3 hours....is 2.5gallons per hour boil off normal for you?

 

[Cape Brewing]

Yes

 

[bill42]

bad ass....

how many gallons postboil of u3 clone did you end up with? seems like it might be easier seperating it into 5gallons batches verus one big batch....they boil for like 6plus hours dont they usually verus the 3 you did

 

[jeepinjeepin]

Must be a wide pot to get that boil off.

 

[DrinksWellWithOthers]

The gallonage of CB's boil kettle is similar to that of a hot tub.

 

[lemy]

I'd mash at 148-150. Need as much maltose as possible. Also carbonate the hell out of the final product to reduce the syrup perception.