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.