Recipe: 1851 William Younger XXX Mild Ale | Craft Beer & Brewing
Anyone ever try something like this?
My yearly Barleywine is coming up and I’m thinking about it.
Maris Otter
Pilgrim (because it’s my English go-to hops)
WLP028
Shoot for about 8-9% ABV and 90-100 IBU’s. I might boil down some of the wort to a syrup and add it back to the main boil to try and create some extra malty depth and darker color. I’m not sure I’d get to the color in the picture with Maris Otter alone though. Maybe.
Pretty close to that. Do it, you won’t be sorry.
Yup, my typical English Barleywine is a crapton of Maris Otter or Chevalier or some other good English Pale malt with a modicum of hops.
Nice! It shall be done.
I do love Barleywine brew day, even if I’m glad there is only one per year. Lots of extra work. I have 5 vintages in the cellar, each a slight variation on the previous year’s. I’m very much looking forward to comparing an all (Crisp) Maris Otter version to the others, which had pinches of this and that, everything added for seemingly good reasons at the time. I have no complaints with past versions, just very curious as to how a Smash Barleywine will play. I think my biggest concern is the color. Will an all MO Barleywine look the part?
I believe you mentioned that you will boil down some of the wort. That should help darken the beer to what extent I don’t know. I look forward to hearing about the beer. IMHO you can not go wrong with an all Maris Otter barleywine
Thanks. I’ll definitely make some syrup out of the wort, maybe even extend the boil to 90 minutes or so as well. But I still think that the picture of the beer in the link in the OP is just some pretty stock photo they had laying around. I find it hard to believe that that picture is MO alone. Really, it’s just color so how important can it be? Though we do have a tendency to taste with our eyes first.
I’ll be brewing this in about a month or so and probably won’t taste any until next fall. Hope you are patient. 
I brewed this today, boiling down about a quart into syrup. Hoping for upper 90’s, I picked up a few extra gravity points that I wasn’t expecting. That sample had a very toffee forward flavor. It’s in the hands of 028 now.
Bottled this today. Finished at 1.028, almost 74% attenuation, just north of 10% ABV. Color ended up around 7-8 SRM.
Now the hard part. 
Your FG is just.01 lower than my anticipated OG
