Blackberry Barley Wine

[stephenabney]

Hey everyone, your thoughts and suggestions on this recipe idea would be greatly appreciated. I happen to have some fresh blackberries and also happened to watch a video on big beers/barley wine. The result is this recipe I created. Will it work?!

http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/blackberry-barley-wine-1

 

[dannyhawkins]

This looks good.

I would say ferment for a month in primary then rack onto frozen and thawed BB for a while like 2 months. Watch out for renewed fermentation when you add the fruit. Also it would probably help to use a fine mesh bag to keep particulate and seeds out of the beer.
This brings up the problem of fitting a huge bag of fruit into the carboy bunghole.
If it were me I would use a bucket for primary, then add the fruit bag to primary for a time, finally rack off of fruit and yeast to secondary for three months to bulk age and bottle after that.
The big beers can really take a while to mellow out so its no big deal to bulk age for a while.