Back during my home brewing days I made a Barleywine.
I did a 12 lb mash consisting of 7 lbs of 6 row barley malt, 2 lbs of victory malt , 1lb of Carapils malt, 1 lb dark crystal malt and 1 lb of wheat malt.
During the boil I added 6 lbs of pale malt extract, 1 lbs of dark brown and a bottle of dark mollasas.
After I pitched the yeast it blew the airlock off the fermenter and beer sludge all over the wall.
It ferment like crazy for 2 week then I transferred it a secondary ferment at which time I repitched it with Champange yeast.
3 weeks later it finally stopped fermenting I primed it with Black strap molasses and bottle it.
I aged it for a month before I tried it, it tasted rather like Old Foghorn and had a similar alcohol content.
It continued to improve with age and I have a friend who I believe still has a bottle statched away.
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