Full disclosure: the batch is made and fermenting.
I was trying to make a recipe out of Brewing Classic Styles, English Barley Wine Hard and Hardy. I don't have the ability to do a 7.5gal boil so I dropped it to a 3gal boil. Here is the schedule I followed:
20min @ 150*f
10oz. Caramunich
10oz. British Crystal 145l
6lbs. Light DME
Pre-boil gravity was 1.090
Boil:
1.5oz Magnum hops 60min
.6oz Fuggle 20min
.6oz Fuggle 0min.
Added 3.5lbs Light DME.
Cooled, transfered to the fermentor and added water to just at the 5gal mark. Checked gravity and it was 1.066! Needed to be at 1.100! Added .5lb DME and .5lb corn sugar and water to 5.5gal. Gravity to 1.074. At 70*f i added one White Labs Super High Gravity Yeast, and 2 London Ale Yeast. Now its doing its thing.
Where did I go wrong? Post boil was supposed to be at 1.100. I thought I did the correct reductions to the extract partial boil bill.
Please help, what is done is done. But in the future I want a 12% Barley Wine, not a 6.6%.
I was trying to make a recipe out of Brewing Classic Styles, English Barley Wine Hard and Hardy. I don't have the ability to do a 7.5gal boil so I dropped it to a 3gal boil. Here is the schedule I followed:
20min @ 150*f
10oz. Caramunich
10oz. British Crystal 145l
6lbs. Light DME
Pre-boil gravity was 1.090
Boil:
1.5oz Magnum hops 60min
.6oz Fuggle 20min
.6oz Fuggle 0min.
Added 3.5lbs Light DME.
Cooled, transfered to the fermentor and added water to just at the 5gal mark. Checked gravity and it was 1.066! Needed to be at 1.100! Added .5lb DME and .5lb corn sugar and water to 5.5gal. Gravity to 1.074. At 70*f i added one White Labs Super High Gravity Yeast, and 2 London Ale Yeast. Now its doing its thing.
Where did I go wrong? Post boil was supposed to be at 1.100. I thought I did the correct reductions to the extract partial boil bill.
Please help, what is done is done. But in the future I want a 12% Barley Wine, not a 6.6%.