Author: Adam Barhan

Brooklyn Brewing Monster

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Brooklyn Brewing Monster, originally uploaded by adambarhan.

Definitely one of the best Barley wines to date. If you wrote off this style grab two of these hide one away for a few years and drink one now.

2011 bottle served in Brooklyn Tulip

A: Great looking, perfect beer. Tawny-to-copper colored, with good clarity, foamy off-white head that fades away and leaves some decent lacing.

S: Fruity and grainy. Booze is almost invisible. Dried apricot, some dark fruits like raisins and dates and figs, toasted grains, caramel, and a hint of citrus, probably from an English Ale yeast.

T: Close to the nose, with nice variables. Sticky toffee and dried fruits on the front and middle of the palette, finishes with a flash of a toasted or lightly burn caramel grain. A splash of alcohol rounds out the flavors.

MF: Medium, thin almost…really just moderate with some good sticky viscous notes and a ghost-like dryness.

O: A nice winter drinker with well-masked alcohol and not too much sugary & buttery malt presence. Recommended.

Adams Amber Ale Brew day

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Brew day has came and gone and the amber is now in the fermenter getting busy with the yeast for a while.  The process stayed the same as previous day with the addition of filtered spring water to see if I cant get some different flavors.

 

Adam’s Amber Ale Recipe

5gal Batch extract Ready in about 5-6weeks ish:

 

Grain:

0.5lbsVictoryMalt

0.5lbsBriessCaramel60

6lbs Munich malt LME

1oz German Perle(60min)

– 1oz Hersbrucker(15min)

– WYEAST1762BELGIANABBEYII

I boiled at all for 60min less the late hop addition, I guess we will see in a few weeks how it is doing.

Epic Brewing Barley Wine

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Epic Brewing Barley Wine, originally uploaded by adambarhan.

A= Pours a deep brown color. The haziness was odd in this style but turned out OK. The head is a finger and a half high with some sticky spotty lacing and the retention is pretty nice.

S= The smell is pretty typical barleywine was well. A touch of hops and a lot of toffee malt. A schoge of booze and a hint of caramel. A little quiet for a barley wine.

T= The taste is about what I expected. A touch of malty sweetness and a nice hop bitterness. The toffee malt character plays a little tango with the hops leaving a sort of overripe tropical fruit taste. Again however I notice that the flavors are a bit muted for a barleywine.

M= The mouth is very good for a barleywine. Just enough carbonation. The flavors still don’t last though.

O= This is a good intro to barleywines. It has all the components of a good barleywine but it just seems a little quiet. Worth checking out and maybe it will develop nicely into a sweeter treat with time but for now this is just an average barleywine that is a nice intro to the style.