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

[Couevas]

I have to ask again......

Where are Edwort and Brewpastor?

 

[niquejim]

What a great day. A little low on the (all malt) BW 1.105 instead of 1.112, but had enough(with an addition of some Pale Choc) to get 5+ gallons of Mild

 

[KingBrianI]

I'm a little scared about this beer. Gravity samples have been more drinkable straight from the primary than some of my beers have been after 3 weeks in the bottle. After hearing about everyone's 999 needing some aging, I'm wondering if mine will have peaked before a year is up?

 

[FSR402]

I'm a little scared about this beer. Gravity samples have been more drinkable straight from the primary than some of my beers have been after 3 weeks in the bottle. After hearing about everyone's 999 needing some aging, I'm wondering if mine will have peaked before a year is up?

Unless you REALLY missed the OG you wont have to worry.
I had a trippl that was good after 3 weeks in the bottle, a month later tasted like jet fuel, a year later was great. A heavy young beer can cover up a lot.

 

[wildwest450]

Been sitting for 2.5 weeks and only down to 1.035. I guess I need to warm it up and give it a swirl. The samples are tasty awesome!

 

[Couevas]

Been sitting for 2.5 and only down to 1.035. I guess I need to warm it up and give it a swirl. The samples are tasty awesome!

Depending on your mash, you may not get much lower.
It will be good regardless, even if it doesn't fall those last few points

 

[eddie]

A beer this big is bound to finish high. Mine started at 1.128 and finished at 1.038 for an ABV of 11.79%.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Hmm... it has almost been a month, I should do a SG reading. Oh yea I broke my ****** sample tube!

 

[korndog]

Hmm... it has almost been a month, I should do a SG reading. Oh yea I broke my ****** sample tube!

Funny, I dropped my sample tube with the hydro in it recently and the sample tube shattered but the hydro did NOT! Spooky.

KD

 

[CBBaron]

A beer this big is bound to finish high. Mine started at 1.128 and finished at 1.038 for an ABV of 11.79%.

I decided to take a sample from my barleywine last night. It was still very cloudy and had plenty of matter and some foam floating on the surface so I had trouble getting a reading. It was however under 1.030 so this one dried out nicely. The sample tasted pretty good if you could get past the "texture". This beer is going to take some time but I think its going to be real good.

Craig

 

[uglygoat]

a year will do wonders for this beer. two or three even more. i still have a thick krausen and stuff swirling all over the place four days after pitching.

 

[MNBugeater]

My has been a month in the primary. Took a reading last night and it was 1.044. This did sit in a cooler room the last couple weeks at about 62-64. I moved it to a warmer environment, 68-70 and swirled the yeast up from the bottom. So im hoping it drops another 10 points, but I suspect that is wishful thinking.

Still dont plan on bottling this until mid-late October.

 

[CBBaron]

My has been a month in the primary. Took a reading last night and it was 1.044. This did sit in a cooler room the last couple weeks at about 62-64. I moved it to a warmer environment, 68-70 and swirled the yeast up from the bottom. So im hoping it drops another 10 points, but I suspect that is wishful thinking.

Still dont plan on bottling this until mid-late October.

I don't plan on transeferring to the secondary until then. The bottle won't come until sometime next year.

Craig

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

I transferred mine to secondary last night, after 3.5 weeks in the primary. It had dropped to 1.022, putting it at 10.7%. I drank the hydrometer sample plus a little more that I let settle out. It is pretty rough around the edges right now, but I can see that this one will blend into a very fine brew over the next 11 months.

I'll have to submit this one for next year's state fair competition! :rockin:

EDIT: FYI, I fermented this on a 1056 yeast cake. Wicked attenuation for 1056!

 

[TexLaw]

After nearly a couple weeks, I still have a little activity in there. In one of the few ways I actually stuck with the original recipe, I shot for in OG around 1.100 and got just that. With the WL Pacific Ale yeast I used, I am looking for my FG around 1.030. I'll check the SG when I rack in another week or so. It sure does smell nice!


TL

 

[BierMuncher]

After nearly a couple weeks, I still have a little activity in there. In one of the few ways I actually stuck with the original recipe, I shot for in OG around 1.100 and got just that. With the WL Pacific Ale yeast I used, I am looking for my FG around 1.030. I'll check the SG when I rack in another week or so. It sure does smell nice!


TL

Mine dropped to 1030 after two weeks and then only dropped another 2 points the next two weeks.

She's a gonna be a sweet one...

 

[korndog]

Mine is at 1.021 after 13 days. Say, are the US05 guys getting more attenuation in this beer than 1056ers? Just curious. I used 3 packs of Safale 05 in mine.

 

[STAD]

I know this is REALLY off topic and I'm probably going to get flamed here but....

I've only had Barleywine once (Sierra Nevada, Bigfoot) and I almost hated it. Is this considered a good barleywine, or did I just have a bad experience...

 

[nealf]

Mine is at 1.021 after 13 days. Say, are the US05 guys getting more attenuation in this beer than 1056ers? Just curious. I used 3 packs of Safale 05 in mine.

I used 2 packs of US-05 and was around 1.028 after 7 days with a big krausen still; I haven't checked it since then.

 

[Chriso]

I've only had Barleywine once (Sierra Nevada, Bigfoot) and I almost hated it. Is this considered a good barleywine, or did I just have a bad experience...

I think I tried Bigfoot, and was so-so on it, but it was a while ago and I don't recall exactly. I had some Flying Dog Horn Dog last night, and was not impressed - far too sweet, and still tastes young. They say they only age it 3 months before selling, so that could be why. But it was quite sugary-sweet. Had no discernible hop presence either.

 

[mrkristofo]

For those of you that made a smaller beer (2nd mash) with the grains, what kind of gravity did you pull off of it? Did you add some more grains?

School's been keeping me busy...I'll be brewing this in a week. Cheers.

 

[olllllo]

1040+, but that was a combination of 2 brewers runoffs and who the hell cares mentality.

 

[STAD]

I want to give barleywine another try because it's not often that I don't like a certain beer (with the exception of most malt liquor). Is there an easily accessible brand I should try?

 

[TexLaw]

I know this is REALLY off topic and I'm probably going to get flamed here but....

I've only had Barleywine once (Sierra Nevada, Bigfoot) and I almost hated it. Is this considered a good barleywine, or did I just have a bad experience...

As an American Barleywine, it's pretty much the prototype. However, it does change a bit from year to year. Age and care also matter. A 2008, right now, will be different from a 2007 and 2006, and so on, for any or all of those reasons. Nowadays, there are many, many American Barleywines to choose from on the market.

English Barleywines are almost a different style, altogether.

To get back to your question, yes, Bigfoot is considered a good barleywine. You may have had a bad experience, or you just may be someone that doesn't care for American Barleywines. There are such people!


TL

 

[STAD]

You may have had a bad experience, or you just may be someone that doesn't care for American Barleywines. There are such people!


TL

That's what I'm thinking, I just figured it was blasphemy to dislike it given the hype.

 

[Warrior]

For those of you that made a smaller beer (2nd mash) with the grains, what kind of gravity did you pull off of it? Did you add some more grains?

School's been keeping me busy...I'll be brewing this in a week. Cheers.

I added another 7 1/2 lbs of grain for an ESB. Ended up with a gravity of 1.064 in the ESB my target was 1.056. I estimate that the 2nd runnings contrbuted about .025 points to the beer, next time I'll use about 6 lbs of additional grains. Both batches were 5 1/2 gal batches.

 

[nealf]

For those of you that made a smaller beer (2nd mash) with the grains, what kind of gravity did you pull off of it? Did you add some more grains?

School's been keeping me busy...I'll be brewing this in a week. Cheers.

3.5 gallons or so of 1.045 if I'm not too mistaken... it was getting late and I didn't bother to take a gravity reading post boil; I used my homegrown hops and some other random stuff... who knows how it'll turn out. Probably gonna suck but whatever, its better than just trashing it I guess.

 

[Chriso]

Sweet. 19 minutes till flameout.

This is one "angry" beer, boil-wise. Thicker than **** soup! I wasn't really sure the entire Lb of candi sugar was even going to dissolve, but it did!

'Ats a lot of grain for 3 gallons!!!!

Update: 3 Gallons net, exactly. Now to see the grav.

Update 2: Disappointing. Just disappointing. Only 1.105. I missed the mark by nearly 20 pts. What. The. Firkin.

Hope my someday-to-be-recipients don't mind getting a wussy loser weak beer. Only 10.5-11.0% ABV, and that's IF it makes it down to 1.020-1.025 like I want it to. (Cmonnnn Cry Havoc yeast cake, do your schtuff!) If it stalls at 1.030, we're talking a 9.8% beer. LAAAAME.

Here's what I wound up going with:
10.5 lbs Pale Malt
1 lbs Munich Malt
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
4.0 oz Special Roast
1 lbs Candi Sugar, Clear (0.5 SRM)

1.75 oz Chinook [10.50 %] (90 min)
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] (20 min)
1.00 oz Centennial [8.00 %] (5 min)

Might dry hop with Cascade.

 

[eddie]

Yeah, my efficiency took a pounding too. I think I ended up at 61% when all was said and done.

 

[FSR402]

Boil up some DME and get it in there just after the fermentation takes off. That is if it really bothers yo that much.
Or we can pair up and I'll send my 16% with your 10%