I'm Thinking... 09/09/09 Barleywine

[BierMuncher]

What was you OG?

 

[Stratotankard]

Ummmm, I sort of WAY overshot that. OG was 1.165, so I'm not sure just how much farther I have to go.

Terje

 

[BierMuncher]

Ummmm, I sort of WAY overshot that. OG was 1.165, so I'm not sure just how much farther I have to go.

Terje

Dude...I'd say 70% attenuation on a monster mash like that is just fine.

1165....WTF?

Did you have to stomp on those grains to get them to fit in your tun?

 

[Stratotankard]

I screwed up my water calculations and started with close to 9 gallons of wort. I then boiled for nearly 3 hours to get down to 5 gallons. Oops! it really was like syrup going into the fermenter.

Terje

 

[chri5]

tested my gravity today...1.022 after 9 days from my starting gravity of 1.100! Tasted great already, I can only imagine after aging, oaking, and dry hopping.

 

[FSR402]

Ummmm, I sort of WAY overshot that. OG was 1.165, so I'm not sure just how much farther I have to go.

Terje

Damn, congrats you beat my 1.150.

 

[BierMuncher]

I expect we will initiate the exchanges in late March / early April.

I have not solicited your shipping info yet, but will in the next few weeks. (Please don't PM me with that info until I ask for it).

In the meantime:

• Get those BW’s on oak if you plan to oak them.
• Get a taste test and see if some late dry hopping will help them.
• Get those bottles cleaned up.
• Make sure your CO2 is adequate to charge that barleywine.
• Start accumulating newspapers, bubble wrap or whatever other packing material you prefer.

Here are the swap parameters:

• You will send to three random individuals.
• You will receive from three random individuals.
• You will send a minimum of 44 ounces. (Generally the minimum is either 4-12 ounce bottles, or 2-22 ounce bombers.)
• No matter how much you send, two bottles in the package must be Barleywine.
• You may (and are encouraged to) send additional HB for immediate enjoyment.

A typical package example would be five or six 12-ounce bottles, two of which are Barleywine.
As long as your recipient receives a minimum of 44 ounces of homebrew, including two bottles of BW, you have met the minimum.​

So when it is said and done, we should each be in possession of 6 bottles of barleywine and hopefully a weekends worth assortment of other homebrew.

Here are a couple of handy links related to:
Packing and Shipping Tutorial.
Link for free boxes.

I use the 12x12x8 size and yes, you can use them at UPS or Fed Ex.​

Good luck and let’s get ready to rumble…. :rockin::rockin:

 

[Couevas]

Ummmm, I sort of WAY overshot that. OG was 1.165, so I'm not sure just how much farther I have to go.

Terje

 

[wildwest450]

Is anyone dry hopping? If so are you using Centennial or Cascade or a mix of the two??

 

[BierMuncher]

Is anyone dry hopping? If so are you using Centennial or Cascade or a mix of the two??

I'm going to taste test first and then decide.

Might go with some amarillo.

 

[wildwest450]

I'm going to taste test first and then decide.

Might go with some amarillo.

Oh snap, that sounds good.

 

[mmb]

Racked from secondary to keg today, 4 months after racking to secondary. Still at 1.020 so I'll be shipping a 12.3% ABV Barleywine.

Nice warming alcohol to this. As tasty as this is flat @ 60* from the sample it's going to be phenomenal carbed and at 40* Going to have to do this one again during the summer so that I have some to sip over 0910 winter. It's going to go quick.

 

[BeerPressure]

I missed the boat on the 8-8-8 and the 9-9-9... will there be a 10-10-10 beer anytime soon?

 

[Jonnio]

I missed the boat on the 8-8-8 and the 9-9-9... will there be a 10-10-10 beer anytime soon?

Probably around 10-10-09

 

[Poppy360]

Brewed in the beginning of Oct. Racked to secondary/split my 6 gal batch into two. I kept one as a control and the other I put on 2oz of med toast oak cubes. I think I may dry hop both of them, but I'm not sure.

I'll get in on the swap if there's still room.

 

[beerthirty]

I guess its time to give mine a taste test. Being as it was the first brew on a new rig has had me a bit worried.

 

[beerthirty]

Oak, chocolate, slightly sweet and bitter, alcoholic. Very little in late addition hop flavor. I will definitely need to dry hop this for better aroma. Overall, I already like it better than most commercials.

 

[FSR402]

My tasted so good going into the keg that I was thinking of bottling up some flat and set it down in the basment and treat it as a cask ale/firkin

 

[Dr_Deathweed]

This is going to sound pretty noobish here, but how many are going to attempt natural carbonation here vs. force carbing and a BMBF?

I am just torn how I want to approach this since I don't want to go shipping flat bottles, though it is pretty damn good right now warm and flat..

 

[beerthirty]

Force carb, all the yeast have dropped and I'm not sure how much luck I would have adding more yeast at 12.4%

 

[Dr_Deathweed]

Force carb, all the yeast have dropped and I'm not sure how much luck I would have adding more yeast at 12.4%

Thats what I was thinking as well, looks like I will be clearing a spot in the 'rator.

 

[Warrior]

This is going to sound pretty noobish here, but how many are going to attempt natural carbonation here vs. force carbing and a BMBF?

I am just torn how I want to approach this since I don't want to go shipping flat bottles, though it is pretty damn good right now warm and flat..

I'm going to try adding fresh 1056 yeast right after a ferment of a 60 min clone. The yeast should be very lively and should carb in the bottle. Probably will not be bottling it for about 3 more weeks. I've been patient and just letting the beer condition in the basement at 48 deg.

 

[mmb]

This is going to sound pretty noobish here, but how many are going to attempt natural carbonation here vs. force carbing and a BMBF?

I am just torn how I want to approach this since I don't want to go shipping flat bottles, though it is pretty damn good right now warm and flat..

Gonna BMBF the whole keg. Don't want to take the chance of a flat barley wine after all this time.

 

[niquejim]

Mine carbed just fine

 

[BierMuncher]

I'm BMBF'ing (just gotta read up on what exactly that is).

Probably drag the keg in from the garage this week where it's been hovering around 47 degrees the last three months. Draw a sample and then tweak with 7-10 days of some dry hopping. Maybe a blend of Amarillo and Glacier.

Then it's into the chiller and on the gas (30PSI for 30 hours), drop PSI to serving and let sit a few more weeks until BMBF'ing time.

 

[Beerrific]

I am also BMBF'ing this beast. I actually have already filled 2 bottles.

I will probably rig up a tube to connect to my CO2 tank and purge each bottle before filling. Looking at mid/late March to get these bottles filled (need to collect the bottles). If I can get my act together, I will fill them on 3-9-09 so they can spend the next 6 months untouched in the bottled.

 

[Stratotankard]

Unfortunately, I don't have the set-up to force carb and BMBF. That said, I was wondering how much (if any) you lose to the keg doing this? I'm going to be splitting my 5 gallon batch out into a few groups to oak, dry hop, put on a vanilla bean, and leave plain. Just to see what differences it makes. I will of course send a bottle of each variety. If I wasn't going to lose too much in the process, I might try and borrow some gear from a buddy.

Terje

 

[BierMuncher]

...I was wondering how much (if any) you lose to the keg doing this?...

If you're talking about spillage, it's minimal. In the course of a 12-pack, I might end up with 1/4 cup at the bottom of the bucket, plus another 1/4 cup in the container I use to catch spillage when I'm bleeding the lines of CO2 bubbles.

 

[Ridemywideglide]

Sooooo,, I don't have kegging equipment yet.. Kegs on the way now, but I don't see having all the gear in time.
Mine went from 1.111 to 1.028 (according to records I can find as my files are all gone) and it's been in secondary for 3+months.. Think there's enough yeasties in there to carb?

 

[TerapinChef]

Yeah, I'm going to have some questions. This will be the first thing that I put in a keg, and I'm doing it exclusively to ensure the proper level of carbonation in the bottle. Like mmb said, too much time involved to risk it not carbing. I've got quite a bit of biermuncher thread reading ahead of me, and it scares the crap out of me!