Northern Brewer Dundalk Irish Heavy Kit??

[biertourist]

Anyone come across Northern Brewer's "Dundalk Irish Heavy Limited Edition Kit" yet?
http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/dundalk-irish-heavy-limited-edition-extract-kit.html?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Dundalk+Irish+Heavy+Limited+Edition+Beer+Recipe+Kit+-+Only+1000+Available.+Order+Yours+Now%21&utm_content=Dibs%21+Dundalk+Irish+Heavy+Limited+Edition.+Get+Yours+Now&utm_campaign=20140304+-+Dundalk

Is this supposed to be the old barley wine?
Despite the abomination that is calling it "Irish Heavy", (and using the Fuller's yeast strain, and calling the regional style British....*Sigh*) what does everyone think?

Anyone end up finding a recipe for the old barley wine when it was brewed in Kilkenny?



Adam

[mr hoppy]

There's a recipe in Graham Wheeler's European beer book. I've not got it hand but it's fairly pedestrian (5.5%, pale, crystal and flaked maize).

[mr hoppy]

When I saw this post, the first thing I thought of was this:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3I4TwgmGV2cJ:barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2011/06/drogheda-ale.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie

See here for the GW recipe:
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/smithwicks-recipe-brew-classic-european-beers-question-312432/

Must have imagined the flaked maize, or maybe that's in his Smithwicks recipe.

I reread Flann O'Brien's Dalkey Archive recently. In one scene the hero Mick is in the Metropole on O'Connell Street when he bumps into Sergeant Fottrell:

"The sergent beckoned to the waitress, ordered a barley wine for himself and a bottle of "that" for his friend. Then he leaned forward confidentially.
- Did you ever discover of hear tell of mollycules?" and cue the whole mad business about bicycles that look like people and people who look like bicycles.

I think "Mollycule Theory" would be a great name for a barley wine. It could have a bicycle on the label as well.

The book was published in 1964 which got me wondering what kind of barleywines were for sale in Dublin in the early sixties. I had a snoop around on the internet but all I could find was blurry snippets of ads for Phoenix barley wine, Smithwicks (which was called TIME for a while in the early sixties) and William Youngers No. 1 Barley wine - a "Scotch" ale - which might be a clue as to the others were like. Might be worth a trip to the library when I've time to suss out a bit more info.

There's a William Youngers No. 1 Barley wine recipe on Barclay Perkins, albeit one from 1913. There's also a 1913 No. 3. (see here:http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2012/03/lets-brew-wednesday-1913-william_28.html). I can't access BP on this laptop but maybe the pre-WW 1 No. 3 might be a possible starting point for a post WW-2 No. 1? A lot of beers seem to have gone that way.

More research needed I think!