Big English Barleywine

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  1. dborginis

    dborginis Initiate (0) Jul 9, 2008 Pennsylvania

    Just bought an English barleywine kit at my local homebrew shop and had planned to just make it today, but plans changed, so I have a little more time to think about it. Was looking to make a Barleywine, like some of the big, thick ones I have been enjoying recently (Insanity, Naked Evil, Sucaba - I understand these are BBA, Double Bastard). This will be my fourth batch ever, and I'm looking if there is anything here I should supplement the kit with.

    Here's the kit:
    75 minute boil
    12lb Mountmellick LME (3 cans, add 1 to start, add two after 20 minutes)
    .5 lb Munton's Carapils Malt
    .5 lb Hugh Baird Crystal Malt
    .5 lb Thomas Fawcett Crystal Malt

    2 oz Challenger (start boil)
    1 oz Bramling (start boil)
    1 oz Pilgrim (65 mins in)
    1 oz Pilgrim (73 min in)

    Yeasts: I altered it here, would have been 2 x WLP013 London Ale Yeast
    I got
    1x WLP013 London Ale Yeast
    1x WLP500 Trappist Ale Yeast
    with the thought that I will split the batch into 2 ale pail fermentors and make half of it a belgian barleywine.

    OG: 1.085
    FG: 1.024
    Alcohol: 8%

    If I'm looking to make one of these thicker, sweeter barleywines, am I on the right track? Anything I should/could add?

    Also, planning to pull some of the batch and experiment with bourbon oak chips to learn as much as possible with this batch...TBD. Thanks!
     
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