sweed
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So I am debating on which beer to make to be used as a starter for my huge beer, a 15ish% barleywine. This is kind of a celebration for my first year of homebrewing, which I started last May. My beers of choice is a brown ale, my first brew ever that turned out really good, and my dad keeps on raving about it, or a porter that I've been wanting to brew for a bit. Both will be about 6% and they will use a clean American ale yeast most likely. I think 1056 is the American ale.
I used this yeast for my huge imperial stout (13%), and it's tolerance is 11%, not sure how my beer was able to do all that, but it worked!
In preparation for this bigger beer, I will also have on hand, or get some, wlp099, high gravity yeast to finish it off, along with adding fermentables after it starts to slow down. I think that helped get my imperial stout down enough adding the fermentables.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this thread, I guess to give me some ideas, or comments to help out with this big beer. I think I'm going to go with the porter, since I haven't brewed one yet.
I will have to use a swamp cooler and fan to help keep my temp down, as next month the averages will be in the low 70's.
I guess I should post up my barleywine recipe for review. I'll do that a little later. The porter will just be a basic one, I think the robust porter recipe in the database. I was thinking of adding some coffee in the secondary, I think that will go nice with it.
I used this yeast for my huge imperial stout (13%), and it's tolerance is 11%, not sure how my beer was able to do all that, but it worked!
In preparation for this bigger beer, I will also have on hand, or get some, wlp099, high gravity yeast to finish it off, along with adding fermentables after it starts to slow down. I think that helped get my imperial stout down enough adding the fermentables.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this thread, I guess to give me some ideas, or comments to help out with this big beer. I think I'm going to go with the porter, since I haven't brewed one yet.
I will have to use a swamp cooler and fan to help keep my temp down, as next month the averages will be in the low 70's.
I guess I should post up my barleywine recipe for review. I'll do that a little later. The porter will just be a basic one, I think the robust porter recipe in the database. I was thinking of adding some coffee in the secondary, I think that will go nice with it.