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Winter Country Ale

Winter Country Ale

English Barleywine • Extract • 5 gal

tchbrew29

It is brew-time!

November 3, 2002 am 09:40am

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Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 1.25 lbs Dextrine Malt

    Dextrine Malt

    In light-colored beers to give additional body. Adds richness without color.

  • 1.0 lbs German Light Munich

    German Light Munich

    For a desired malty, nutty flavor. Lagers, Oktoberfests and bock beer.

  • 1.25 lbs Crystal Malt 80°L

    Crystal Malt 80°L

    Body and Richness. Distictive Nutty flavor and or sweet, smooth caramel flavor and a red to deep red color. For porters, old ales.

  • 0.5 lbs Belgian Biscuit

    Belgian Biscuit

    Warm baked biscuit flavor and aroma. Increases body. Use in Belgian beers.

  • 0.75 lbs German Smoked

    German Smoked

    Earthy, rich smoke flavor

  • 0.375 lbs Belgian Special B

    Belgian Special B

  • 9 lbs Light; John Bull

    Light; John Bull

    Made from Lager malt, it will add body and character to any light brew. Light malt extract will impart rich flavor compounds, ensure an excellent fermentation, and improve the clarity.

  • 0.25 lbs Barley Flaked

    Barley Flaked

    Helps head retention, imparts creamy smoothness. For porters and stouts.

  • 2.5 oz Fuggle - 4.4 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • 0.5 oz Fuggle - 4.4 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Fuggle

    Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.

  • White Labs WLP005 British Ale

    White Labs WLP005 British Ale

    This yeast is a little more attenuative than WLP002. Like most English strains, this yeast produces malty beers. Excellent for all English style ales including bitter, pale ale, porter, and brown ale.

Notes

For the John bull substitute 12 pounds of Golden Promise (Beeston Malt) and I also added 1 ounce of Roasted barley to the recipe. The free recipe calculator will only allow so many entries. My strike temperature was 172 degrees with a 90 minute mash at 154-156 degrees. I boiled for a full 90 minutes. My original gravity was 1.081. I think my mash efficiency could be improved. I used quite a substantial yeast starter. The fermentor was bubbling away within 1.5 hours. This database calculator thinks this recipe is 99% English-Style Barley Wine. I would have nailed the recipe dead on by their standards with more hops. I was trying for a strong ale. My gravity reading sample tasted quite good (sweet,hoppy and a beautiful red color) and I think this is going to be quite a winter warmer! Cheers

Style (BJCP)

Category: 19 - Strong Ale

Subcategory: B - English Barleywine

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.087 1.080 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.021 1.018 - 1.030
Color: 20.8 SRM 8 - 22
Alcohol: 8.7% ABV 8% - 12%
Bitterness: 54.4 IBU 35 - 70

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