Brewed up a barley wine yesterday evening with another mash-tun busting effort. This one has been brewed as a celebration ale for the 100th monthly “handicap run” by my running club – I was tempted to try for an OG of 1.100, but even I can’t squeeze that much into a 24l mashtun without taking the outturn right down to less than 4 gallons!
So here’s the deal:
7kg Maris Otter
140g Black malt
100g Torrefied WheatMash 66C for 2hrs
320g Brown Sugar
180g Amber Candi SugarHops:
Target (9% slightly old 2006 crop) – 32g, 90min
Fuggles (4.4%) – 20g, 90min
Fuggles (4%) – 50g, 90minFuggles (4%) – 50g, 15min
Irish moss at 15min
Pitch 2 packets S04
All went very well and hit 20.5litres at 1.086, and should have a bitterness about 60IBU or so – lost a load of wort to the 150g of hops in there, but a decent enough outturn nevertheless. The yeast has really kicked off too – big fluffy merangue top just 16 hours after pitching.
Not bothering with temperature control on this one as the large 6G fermenter doesn’t actually fit in the fridge…
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