Bottling my Barley Wine!!!

[bgrayson726]

Hey all

I'm bottling my barley wine tonight! I'm adding 2.9 oz of dextrose to prime it and have to wait another 3-8 months (waited 2 already... been dry hopping, etc.). The beer looks great. SG was 1090, and the FG was 1020. It will be ~9.8%. I'm stoked.

I'm waiting for the dishwasher to finish so I can have a few more bottles, but wish me luck on the bottling. I have been checking on it 7-10 times a day for the last 2 months and everything is looking good so far! I'll post pictures when I pour my first glass!

 

[topend]

Congratulations...sounds like you put in a lot of effort, should make it taste that much better.

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[swoof]

Cool, man. I can't wait to bottle my first barley wine.

I'm wondering how long it took to go from 1090 to 1020. I just started mine on 3/19 at 1096 and on 4/1 it was at 1034. It's still slowly chugging away. I'm not getting impatient by any means since I know there's a good six months of waiting after I hit final gravity but I'm just curious.

 

[bgrayson726]

I fermented at about 70* +/- 1. It feels like it was pretty quick. I primary fermented for 1 month and it was done fermenting by then. I transferred to a secondary for 2 weeks while I dry hopped it. I'd give yours another 2 weeks or so and it should be around your target.

 

[rwmiscik]

I made a barley wine 17 days ago that had an og of 1.125 and is now down 1.042 , im hoping it drops some more which im sure it will since there is still very clear signs of fermentation going on i the carboy. gonna rack it onto some oak chip in another two weeks

 

[remilard]

Cool, man. I can't wait to bottle my first barley wine.

I'm wondering how long it took to go from 1090 to 1020. I just started mine on 3/19 at 1096 and on 4/1 it was at 1034. It's still slowly chugging away. I'm not getting impatient by any means since I know there's a good six months of waiting after I hit final gravity but I'm just curious.

As a data point my last barleywine went from 1.102 to 1.028 (terminal) in 4 days. It was in a keg dry hopping at 14 days, final keg at 21 days, and at 27 days a growler of it went very fast at a club meeting.

Oxygen, temp control, pitching rate, yeast vitality.

 

[jtakacs]

as soon as my stout gets out of the barrel, that's the next beer going in... nice job, sounds awesome.