The New Barrel Recipe

[Shane Phelan]

This one has the biggest krausen of any beer I have done, up to the top of the fermenter, a good 4"

I'm having a similar experience...

[Rossa]

My black Tsunami imp porter was shooting foam up the wall at one stage. The other half was but impressed.

[Rossa]

A little behind but got 1100 on the nose today.

[Bubbles]

Looks like the Notty has done the job on my beer. Airlock has been like a machine gun over the last few days, but thankfully, no overspill from the fermenter. Although the yeast has mostly dropped, there's still a bit of action from the airlock, so I've moved to a warmer room to let it finish out. Will take a gravity sample over the next couple of days, I think.

[Bubbles]

Oh yeah.. and my OG was a little under target at 1.096, but I got more volume than expected. I think the addition of extract screwed up my pre-boil volume. All good though..

[Bubbles]

Cheers. Can't say I've ever noticed butterscotch when using Notty before, but I'll be sure to warm the fermenter up a little.

[Shane Phelan]

Just checked there now, mine is down to 1.016 giving around 11% abv. Can definitely taste the alcohol in mine.

[Bubbles]

Mine is still bubbling! 

[Rossa]

How are the finishing gravities looking? I was at 10% yesterday. 1024.

[beerfly]

forgot to recheck mine but last time it was at 1.016, really rich tasting too

[Shanna]

I took a gravity reading tonight after 4 days and the barley wine has dropped from 1.105 to 1.015. That makes a beer of just under 12%. The fermenter is still bubbling so it will drop further. I tasted the sample and it's already got hints of fruit coming through.  My immediate thought was orange or mandarin. It's certainly the tastiest beer i have done thus far and it's golden colour. I can't wait to taste everybody else's.

Shanna

I did a beer for the summer beer competition & to be sure I was under the 4% limit I double checked the original gravity with my hydrometer. I got different results so meaning the original 1.105 value for my English Barley wine was higher that it was.

I double checked my refractometer today with distilled water (never did it before) and it turns out that it is was out by .09. So my original starting gravity of 1.105 is actually 1.096. The beer eventually finished out at 1.012. This gives an alcohol of 11.03. Not as high as what I originally thought but still pretty strong.

Shanna

[David]

Checked mine before delivering to Shanna it was down to 1.02 giving 10.7%.
See you all Saturday

[Rossa]

Mine was down to 1020 yesterday. Ready for kegging. Some legs on it.

[Bubbles]

Lads, can anyone who hasn't posted their barleywine recipe yet, please do so? I think we're missing a couple of the contributors recipes?

[Bubbles]

Thanks Tube. Recipe looks the business.