Batch 25
Beer Style: barleywine, Scotch ale
Recipe Type: all-grain
Description:
I submitted it to the AHA's homebrew contest this year. Both judges said "not enough alcoholic punch" and "not enough hops" for a barleywine, and both gave it a 27, though from the breakdown of the scores, I got the impression that they agreed on the 27 beforehand, and then somehow tried to justify it (since 27 corresponds to "not true to style"). Both agreed that it was well-brewed, malty, estery. One judge said slight chill haze and the other said somewhat astringent.
Maybe it made a better scotch ale, But I loved her, and she's gone, captain.
Ingredients:
* 20 pounds, lager malt
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1/2 pound, crystal malt
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5 pounds, munich malt
* 1 pound, roasted lager malt
* 2 teaspoons, gypsum
* 1 ounce, Goldings leaf hops (5.6% alpha), boil 1 hour 40
OG: 1.090 FG: 1.034
Procedure:
1 hour 15 minute protein rest at 132 --- 115F. Mash at 152F with 1/2 ounce amylase enzyme for 2--1/2 hours. Mash out at 165--172. Sparge with 168 water to make 11 gallons. Boil, adding hops as noted. Cool and pitch yeast. Rack after 1 week, bottle a week later priming with corn sugar.