American Barleywine Bigfoot Barleywine Ale Clone

[schatzke]

Those who brewed and bottled this did you use corn sugar or champagne yeast?
Dry hop in the primary after about 14 days for 7 days then rack to bulk age a bit before bottling?
Thinking this might be a good beer to brew next weekend.

 

[jeff62217]

Those who brewed and bottled this did you use corn sugar or champagne yeast?
Dry hop in the primary after about 14 days for 7 days then rack to bulk age a bit before bottling?
Thinking this might be a good beer to brew next weekend.

I usually just use cane sugar when I bottle, but corn works too. I didn't use additional yeast, just bottled normally. It'll carb up.

I always dry hop in primary, the usually secondary for a few days to drop out the hop trub and most of the yeast especially if I plan on bottling. Your schedule sounds good.

Happy brewing, post your results when it's ready

 

[schatzke]

Brewed this today with a slight variation. Ended up 1.092. Also did my first party gyle. Smaller beer is a pale ale 1.041. Used my HLT as a 2nd boil kettle. Long brew day but had a lot of fun. Can't wait to see how it ends up

 

[Randall77]

Hello, is the start of the boil the 140min cascade whirlpool? Makes sense but the fact that whirlpool at the start of the boil and cascade boiling for 140 min threw me.

 

[jeff62217]

Hello, is the start of the boil the 140min cascade whirlpool? Makes sense but the fact that whirlpool at the start of the boil and cascade boiling for 140 min threw me.

Just went over the email again this morning. They say to whirlpool at 150 mins before the 140 min cascade/centennial addition.

I've always thought whirlpooling was done at the end of the boil, but I don't have a pump or ports on my kettle to allow me to do it.

Now that I think about it they may have misunderstood the boil addition times. Instead of adding chinook at the end, I might try switching the schedule around and doing it at the beginning and adding the cascade/centennial at the end.

Guess I should've caught that sooner.

 

[GrogNerd]

totally forgot to log this here

brewed on 2/21/2016, bottled 3/28/2016, tasted 6/10/2016

horrible efficiency, came in waaay low on OG (1.077), but ran with it. dry-hopped with additional hops

don't know how close a clone it is, but 3 months in bottle, it's very, very tasty

 

[BWRIGHT]

Anybody brewed this up recently? Or another Bigfoot clone recipe? Looking to get some into some bottles soon to start sampling this winter. Drink a few, cellar the rest for a year or more.

 

[GrogNerd]

not recently, but I still have a couple bottles of my 2016 clone & a 2016 Bigfoot for comparison

I might have to break out a bottle of each, see how they've aged

my guess is they are delicious

Anybody brewed this up recently? Or another Bigfoot clone recipe? Looking to bet a barleywine into some bottles soon to start sampling this winter.

 

[BWRIGHT]

I'd be interested to hear that comparison. I ordered a 6 pack a few days ago. Should be here by Friday. Been a long tims since I've had a Bigfoot but I'm looking to brew a barleywine soon and figured it a good place to start. Looks like Sierra Nevada only releases Bigfoot from Jan-April. Not sure which vintage I ordered, (assuming 2020) it didn't say.

I've seen a few Bigfoot clone recipes on here; so you used the OP's recipe but added additional dry hops?

 

[GrogNerd]

my recipe here at the defunct Grog Blog

don't know where I got the idea to add the carapils. maybe from the AHA's recipe

but there also seems to be elements of the BYO recipe

it was 5 years ago, I'm getting old & something was just made legal in the Commonwealth at the beginning of this month