October Brewday – Barleywine
I took the day off to brew today. I’m making a big American style barleywine that I’m hoping to drink at Christmas. I know this isn’t enough time to properly age a barleywine, but as long as the alcohol isn’t too overpowering I think it will be a nice beer after only a few months. I enjoy the way barleywine changes as it ages and think it’s great fresh as well.
10:10 – Mashed In @ 150F
12:10 – Started the first batch runoff.
You can see that I’m really maxing out my mash tun, this is right before the first batch runoff:
Starting the vorlauf, the color is perfect and it really smells wonderful!
13:20 – Added the 90 minute hop addition (the one on the top in this pic) and started the timer.
Finally wrapped everything up at about 17:30, which isn’t too bad considering the long mash and boil times. Here is the recipe. I haven’t added the Turbinado yet, that will come in a couple of days. I ended up at 1.092, which is higher than I expected without the Turbinado. This may even hit 12% if the yeast keep going like I expect them to. I’m pitching 4 packages of US-05 into the 10 gallons.