Blind Squirrel Barleywine

Classification: barleywine, extract

Source: Jack Dawson (JSDAWS1@PB1.PacBell.COM), Issue #1045, 12/30/92

This barleywine, which I've recently named "Blind Squirrel Barleywine" took a first place at the California State comps at Stern grove, SF this fall, and just recently won the AHA's first-ever barleywine competition. I call it blind squirrel because, it's the first brew I've ever done which has won anything.... which proves only that even a blind squirrel sometimes finds the acorn.

Ingredients:

6 pounds Williams light austrailian syrup
5 pounds Williams light austrailian dry
1 pound 10-L crystal---steeped
1 pound 40-L crystal---steeped
3 ounces Chinook pellets aa%13 (60 min)
1/2 ounce CFJ-90 pellets aa%9 (5 min)
1/2 ounce CFJ-90 (dry hopped in secondary)
1 teaspoon gypsum at start of boil
1 teaspoon Irish moss (30 minutes)
Whitbread dry ale yeast

Procedure:

Primary fermentation - glass for 5 days at 65 degrees. Secondar in glass for 16 days at 65 degrees. Wort was boiled in 4 gal. pot (3 1/2 volume) with 2 gal. water added to primary fermenter.