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I'm going to be making a few barley wines and a high gravity mega barley wine in the upcoming months and I'd like to use smaller bottles.
Imagine what it would be like if someone handed you a 12 ounce glass of premium Scotch for the first time and they said it was delicious. Your impression would be that it is a drink to be chugged, so chug you would. You'd take a big sip and gag and you'd probably not touch another glass of scotch again. On the other hand, if someone hands you a small snifter, then on some level you get the picture that this isn't something to be chugged.
I feel that higher gravity beers would actually be better served in smaller bottles. I'm actually envisioning those little 8 ounce coke glasses, only in brown. I mean, really, 22 ounces of 20% barley wine? That's not a drink, that's a full night of drinking in a single bottle!
So does anybody have a source for smaller bottles?
In the alternative, how bad would it be after aging, to store beer in a liqueur type bottle and just pour yourself a snifter once every few days over the course of a week or two? Would a 20% beer hold up to that type of treatment? What do you think?
Imagine what it would be like if someone handed you a 12 ounce glass of premium Scotch for the first time and they said it was delicious. Your impression would be that it is a drink to be chugged, so chug you would. You'd take a big sip and gag and you'd probably not touch another glass of scotch again. On the other hand, if someone hands you a small snifter, then on some level you get the picture that this isn't something to be chugged.
I feel that higher gravity beers would actually be better served in smaller bottles. I'm actually envisioning those little 8 ounce coke glasses, only in brown. I mean, really, 22 ounces of 20% barley wine? That's not a drink, that's a full night of drinking in a single bottle!
So does anybody have a source for smaller bottles?
In the alternative, how bad would it be after aging, to store beer in a liqueur type bottle and just pour yourself a snifter once every few days over the course of a week or two? Would a 20% beer hold up to that type of treatment? What do you think?