dummkauf
Well-Known Member
Noob here with 3 batches under his belt and looking for some extract recipe suggestions for beers that would benefit from bulk aging for several months to a year as I recently scored 3 more 5 gallon carboys for cheap on Craigslist, which brings me up to one 6 gallon and four 5 gallon carboys, and figure I should fill them with something.
I have an Imperial Stout aging in one of them right now and I have a mead kit I am going to get into one soon, which leaves me with 2 empty five gallon carboys for aging. Plus by the time I get the mead and 2 more batches through primary my Stout should be in bottles
carboy #1: Imperial Stout currently aging(6 more weeks til bottling)
carboy #2: Soon to be full of mead
carboy #3:???
carboy #4:???
I like the idea of brewing up a Belgian Tripel, some type of double, or even a barley wine, but I'm not sure if I can do those higher gravity beers with extract or not? I've also seem a few references that those "big" beers are much more difficult to brew, is this true, and if so are there any lower gravity beers that should be aged?
I have an Imperial Stout aging in one of them right now and I have a mead kit I am going to get into one soon, which leaves me with 2 empty five gallon carboys for aging. Plus by the time I get the mead and 2 more batches through primary my Stout should be in bottles
carboy #1: Imperial Stout currently aging(6 more weeks til bottling)
carboy #2: Soon to be full of mead
carboy #3:???
carboy #4:???
I like the idea of brewing up a Belgian Tripel, some type of double, or even a barley wine, but I'm not sure if I can do those higher gravity beers with extract or not? I've also seem a few references that those "big" beers are much more difficult to brew, is this true, and if so are there any lower gravity beers that should be aged?