Korben
Well-Known Member
A friend of mine brewed up a barley wine... i was excited about it he said it was about 9% ABV. I was looking forward to trying it.. He said he kept it in the primary for two weeks, then to secondary for two more weeks, then to bottle conditioning for a planned 3 weeks till the first tasting day. However, about 2 days after bottling he came home from class and about half of his bottles had exploded. I said I had no idea why that would happen, unless he added too much priming sugar or did not mix his priming sugar well enough... Is this a common occurrence with barley wines? I was wanting to do one sometime in the the relatively distant future (about 6-8 months from now) and bottle condition it. Should he have left it on the cake longer or in secondary? its too bad i hope the remain bottles turn out well.