So I brewed my barleywine yesterday. I met up with several friends and they were brewing a second barleywine at the same time.
Everything going ok, had some problems with my burner (not getting hot enough). Drinking beer, talking and having fun (forgot I was heating my strike water and hit 190). Mash went fine. Onto boiling, As I said my burner was acting up, so it took awhile to get to a boil and then not a vigorous boil. I put in my first hops. I then remembered I had to go to the store, so I asked my buddy (who is a better homebrewer than me) to watch my boil and that the next hop addition was 1 oz Northdown and told him I had a hop bag on the table. Well, he thought I said there is a bag of hops on the table and didnt really think about it, and put the bag of hops into the kettle, without the hop bag. Well, that was 4 oz of Northdown at 9.6%. I put the numbers into my program and it says I should be at like 174 IBU's. Well, he was extremely sorry, so I said RDWHAB, and lets see what we can do. So figuring this is going down, lets dump some DME to bump up the maltiness and balance out the hops a little, so I dumped 4 pounds DME into the boil kettle. Recalculate and my OG was 1.135 with 180 IBU's (I added some flame out hops for aroma as the last hops was put in at 90 minutes of a 120 boil). AT the end of the boil I had more wort than expected and my OG was off (i didnt get the boil off I expected as my burner didnt get the boil as vigorous).
So, it is into the primary, pitched my yeast. In 2 weeks I adding a pitch of Scottish yeast. Then into secondary after 2 more weeks. Secondary for 2-4 weeks, maybe throw in some scotch soaked oak chips, then bottle condition for 6 months. Let you know how it is around christmas.
Everything going ok, had some problems with my burner (not getting hot enough). Drinking beer, talking and having fun (forgot I was heating my strike water and hit 190). Mash went fine. Onto boiling, As I said my burner was acting up, so it took awhile to get to a boil and then not a vigorous boil. I put in my first hops. I then remembered I had to go to the store, so I asked my buddy (who is a better homebrewer than me) to watch my boil and that the next hop addition was 1 oz Northdown and told him I had a hop bag on the table. Well, he thought I said there is a bag of hops on the table and didnt really think about it, and put the bag of hops into the kettle, without the hop bag. Well, that was 4 oz of Northdown at 9.6%. I put the numbers into my program and it says I should be at like 174 IBU's. Well, he was extremely sorry, so I said RDWHAB, and lets see what we can do. So figuring this is going down, lets dump some DME to bump up the maltiness and balance out the hops a little, so I dumped 4 pounds DME into the boil kettle. Recalculate and my OG was 1.135 with 180 IBU's (I added some flame out hops for aroma as the last hops was put in at 90 minutes of a 120 boil). AT the end of the boil I had more wort than expected and my OG was off (i didnt get the boil off I expected as my burner didnt get the boil as vigorous).
So, it is into the primary, pitched my yeast. In 2 weeks I adding a pitch of Scottish yeast. Then into secondary after 2 more weeks. Secondary for 2-4 weeks, maybe throw in some scotch soaked oak chips, then bottle condition for 6 months. Let you know how it is around christmas.
