For my 100th beer I figured a barleywine was fitting. I’ve not brewed anything over 8.4% so far, which means I’ve not tried a Barleywine yet. This is my 5.25 gal partial mash recipe so far:
The yeast is washed slurry that I keep going as I found I got slightly better attenuation and flocculation than the WLP001 I had been using prior. I use a whisk to aerate and keep it in my fermentation chamber for ~1 1/2 days.
As a comparison, a 5 year old version of this won the OR state fair a number of years ago…the reason for 2 yeasts is that we made a 10 gal. batch, fermented 5 gal. with each yeast, then blended at bottling…
Evaporation Rate: 1.50 Gallons Per Hour
Pre-Boil Wort Size: 12.75 Gal
Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.096 SG 22.80 Plato
Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
66.7 41.00 lbs. Pale Ale Malt (2 Row) France 1.039 2
24.4 15.00 lbs. Munich Malt Great Western (2- America 1.035 10
4.9 3.00 lbs. CaraMunich 80 France 1.034 40
4.1 2.50 lbs. Crystal 60L America 1.034 60
Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.
Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
5.00 oz. Zeus 2008 Whole 16.40 33.9 First WH
7.00 oz. Centennial Pellet 8.30 73.1 60 min.
2.00 oz. Amarillo 2008 Whole 9.50 7.9 10 min.
2.00 oz. Centennial Pellet 8.30 0.0 Dry Hop
Extras
Amount Name Type Time
1.00 Tsp Yeast Nutrient Other 10 Min.(boil)
2.00 Tsp Gypsum Other 60 Min.(boil)
1.00 Unit(s)Whirlfolc Fining 15 Min.(boil)
Yeast
Wyeast 1450 Denny’s Favorite and WY1272 Am. Ale II
When I’m unfamiliar with a style I look at commercial recipe sheets and compare to posted recipes of which I didn’t see any (too much to sift through as it’s not separated by style). The combination of the two specialty grains was in theirs so I ran with it. Why would you drop it?
2 reasons…the DME will likely have some unfermentables in it, and if so yo don’t want to get them too high. If you can find some specific info in the DME, it could guide you as to whether to use the caravienne or not. And also becasue it won’t really contribute much to flavor compared to the caramunich. But this is all SWAG.
I buy from MoreBeer. Used to be the DME was Briess, but that may have changed. Same with the LME.
As an aside I see they offer a Munich LME. Might that play better with with the Ashburne Mild? I noticed you used Munich grains in yours but less than 1/2.