Help me come up with my 50th Birthday (or my Memorial) 5 year aged Barleywine recipe.

[Revvy]

Hardest thing I experience is resisting the urge to pop the bung and take a sample. I really need to move the barrel somewhere where I can't see it all the time.

I was going to originally suggest that you just bring your beer my way and leave the barrel at my place. LOL

 

[Skuee]

I was going to originally suggest that you just bring your beer my way and leave the barrel at my place. LOL

You did half a dozen times. I just kept ignoring you. lol.

 

[ImNoExpert]

I'd also like to say that I'm glad that this was a 50th birthday beer and a not a memorial beer. Brew on, Revvy!

 

[C-Rider]

Revvy glad to hear/see you are still alive and kicking. I use to enjoy reading your posts of which I have not seen a lot in the last year or so. I just past 72 a few months ago and luckily am still healthy. Happy Birthday and have many more to come.

 

[Revvy]

My Barrel's coming back soon. Hard to believe it's been nearly 6 month at Skuee's house. I've been falling in love with Griffin Claws 6-9 month barrel aged stouts, so thinking about doing something like that. A nice bourbon barrel aged coffee vanilla porter or stout perhaps.

Oh, there's some peeps on this thread saying more than a week is too long in a barrel ?!?!?!?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA.... wimps.

Where do people come up with stuff like that?

What's the point of using a barrel then....they don't call it barrel aging for nothing.

 

[Braumeise]

Wow! This is by far the best thing that happened in 2016 to me so far...

I start reading this from 5 years ago, not knowing anything thinking OMG... he could be dead... and he is so young!!! and I click on the last page not knowing what I will find and I find this...

Wow! This did so many things to me at once... appreciate life... be utterly happy for a complete stranger and feel blessed to be able to read this and feel happy for OP to be able to enjoy his beer...

holy...*** I am overwhelmed right now!

OP, please keep enjoying beer for the next 50 years!

 

[bob1852]

My Barrel's coming back soon. Hard to believe it's been nearly 6 month at Skuee's house. I've been falling in love with Griffin Claws 6-9 month barrel aged stouts, so thinking about doing something like that. A nice bourbon barrel aged coffee vanilla porter or stout perhaps.

Oh, there's some peeps on this thread saying more than a week is too long in a barrel ?!?!?!?! BWAHAHAHAHAHA.... wimps.

Where do people come up with stuff like that?

What's the point of using a barrel then....they don't call it barrel aging for nothing.

A 5 liter barrel (which the OP is using in that thread you're mocking) will incorporate the wood character much faster than a 55g, or even 5g barrel. Yes, it will be days or weeks at that scale. Shrug...

 

[Revvy]

A 5 liter barrel (which the OP is using in that thread you're mocking) will incorporate the wood character much faster than a 55g, or even 5g barrel. Yes, it will be days or weeks at that scale. Shrug...

Damn, didn't catch the "L" I saw five and my mind went to G.... I am a 'murican afterall, that metric stuff don't mean nuthin to us. :fro:

 

[Revvy]

It just popped up on Facebook Memories that we brewed this 6 years ago today. Wow.

 

[piteko]

It just popped up on Facebook Memories that we brewed this 6 years ago today. Wow.

This is so cool...

Cheers from Italy!
Piteko

 

[Revvy]

Hard to believe it was 6 years ago today I had the heart surgery.

 

[piteko]

Hard to believe it was 6 years ago today I had the heart surgery.

Time passes faster when you drink good beer

Cheers from Italy!
Piteko

 

[8rnw8]

Cheers! Have learned so much from all your posts over the years.

 

[Revvy]

It was 8 years ago today we gathered to brew this beer.
I think the pics on this thread have been lost during the server migration, but they are on my facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/michael.f....t45j8SNNVxvqKhi3OsezBoeitRPp4y9IP0Y&__tn__=-R

 

[Pugnacious Brewing]

Thanks for sharing Revvy. I have learned quite a bit from your posts over the past few years, and it was nice to see this post. Glad to see things are going well.

 

[Revvy]

Hard to believe it's been 9 years. Guess we have to crack some 10 year old for my 55th bday next year.

 

[Revvy]

Damn.... according to FB Memories today's the day...

It was 10 years ago today that a group of friends gathered with me to brew a special beer, and extremely strong, once in a lifetime, barleywine that was going to be laid up for 5 year- most of it in an Oak Barrel- until my 50th birthday. But honestly none of us, especially me knew if I would be there to drink it, or if they would be drinking it in my memory. This was during that scary time where the doctors still hadn't figured out what was wrong with my heart- and I didn't know what my future would be.

The whole day was pretty magical- The recipe had come together as sort of a world wide collaboration between homebrewers on HomeBrewTalk.com (some even brewed a similar recipe on the same day) a friend donated 50 year old honey for it, another friend lent me his yard, others brought equipment to pull this massive batch off. We had an amazing BBQ meal while brewing. We also made meads, including a 5th century burnt honey mead called a bochet.
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since this day- and we did get to drink it on my Birthday 5 years ago. It turned out to be 19.75% ABV, more like a liqueur than a beer.
It survived my housefire (by the sheer luck of bringing the barrel upstairs 3 days before the fire- had I not it would have been flooded out in my storage area by all the fire department water.
And it was amazing.
For my 55th birthday I planned to pull the remaining bottles out from my storage under the stairs leading to the flat above mine, but there is 6 month's worth of returnables blocking it, so sadly it will have to wait....
But I can say one thing though, it was a survivor...I guess like me.

 

[homebrudoc]

Congrats on the 10 year anniversary of this one, Revvy!
homebrudoc

 

[gunhaus]

 

[rhys333]

First time I've noticed this thread. Glad to hear that your health situation turned out for the better. Here's to 10 more years, and another 20 or so after that.

 

[Kent88]

I don't think Revvy hangs out here much anymore. Tomorrow might be a good day to have a beer for him.

I hope life is treating you right, Revvy, and tomorrow is a particularly good day for you.