Wednesday 9 May 2018

Brewday 27/04/18 Barley Wine

Half the beer - twice the alcohol

I decided to attempt a barley wine for the first time, loosely based on this Ron Pattison recipe from 1956 for Tennants No.1 Barley Wine. With an alcohol level of 10% abv, and it being a new style for me, I decided to only brew about 10lt as this was not going to be a session beer.


Recipe BIAB

  • Mash for 120 mins at 65°C
  • Boil for 105 minutes
  • Mash water volume 18.1lt
  • 3kg Maris Otter
  • 265g Flaked Maize
  • 90g Chocolate Malt
  • 90g Crystal Malt 45L
  • 500g Muscavado Sugar
  • 25g Northdown 105 mins
  • 12g First Gold 60 mins
  • 12g First Gold 15 mins
  • 12g Perle dry hop 5 days
  • 1 pack GV12 Gervin English Ale yeast
  • Recipe in Brewers Friend

Results

OG 1.082
FG 1.010
ABV 9.4%
Although I brewed about 11 litres I finished with just 20 x 330ml bottles. Given the bit of residue left in the bottling bucket and the trub left at the bottom of the demijohns I reckon I started bottling with about 8 litres, the rest escaped during an extremely active fermentation. 

The great escape
On reflection I think if I brew something similar again I'll split it over three demijohns.
 

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