Brew Recipe

5 Gallons  -  Extract

OG: 1.090         FG: 1.024

Alcohol by Volume: 8.66 %

Color:

10 (HCU)

7 (SRM)

Recipe Style:

Specialty Grains
  • Crystal 10L Simpsons - Australian   (1 pounds)
  • Crystal 40L - Generic   (1 pounds)
Fermentables
  • Light Coopers - Australian   (6.6 pounds)  60 min
  • Pilsen Briess - American   (5 pounds)  60 min
Mash Schedule

Strike Water: 0 gallons (0.00 quarts)
Sparge Water: 0 gallons (0.00 quarts)
Total Water: 0 gallons (0.00 quarts)

Hop Additions
  • Columbus Pellet  (2oz.)  60 min
  • Glacier Pellet  (1oz.)  60 min
  • Cascade Leaf  (0.5oz.)  5 min
  • Cascade Leaf  (0.5oz.)  Dry Hop
Boil Additions
  • Gypsum  (1 tsp)  60 min
  • Irish Moss  (1 tsp)  30 min
Yeast
  • White Labs WLP007 - Dry English Ale Yeast (Liquid)
  • White Labs WLP715 - Champagne (Liquid)
Priming Solution
  • Muntons Carb Tabs  (5 ounces)
Trifecta Barleywine

Primary Fermentation: 7 days
Secondary Fermentation: 3.8 months (114 days)
Bottle Conditioning: 3.3 months (99 days)
Total Aging Time: 7.1 months (221 days)

Brewing Notes

Added Champagne Yeast about a week before bottling
2 Muntons Tabs in each bottle for very light carbonation

Tasting Notes

Could not wait for this one... every time I sampled it during aging it tasted great.  Very smooth tasting in the end, but it could have been a little hoppier.

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