English Barleywine Recipe - Bad Santa Holiday Ale

Recipe Info

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Bad Santa Holiday Ale

by on
All Grain
5.5 Gallon(s)
8 Gallon(s)
90 min
70%
All Grain English Barleywine homebrew recipe. This homebrew recipe uses the following ingredients: 2-Row - US, Special B - BE, CaraMunich - BE, Biscuit Malt - BE, Belgian Dark Candi Sugar - BE, Brown Sugar - US, Pureed Cherries, Styrian Goldings Hops, Tettnang Hops, Hallertau Hops, Wyeast Scottish Ale 1728 Homebrew Yeast, Anise, Irish Moss, bitter orange, sweet orange, Clove.

Fermentables

63% - 2-Row - US
15
36
2
Mash
5% - Special B - BE
1.25
30
180
Mash
5% - CaraMunich - BE
1.125
34
56
Mash
4% - Biscuit Malt - BE
1
36
23
Mash
4% - Belgian Dark Candi Sugar - BE
1
36
275
Late
6% - Brown Sugar - US
1.5
46
8
Late
13% - Pureed Cherries
3.0625
32
5
Late

Hops

Styrian Goldings
1.5
Pellet
Boil
60 min(s)
5.3
20.5
Tettnang
0.5
Pellet
Boil
45 min(s)
4.5
5.3
Hallertau
0.5
Pellet
Boil
45 min(s)
4.5
5.3
Tettnang
0.5
Pellet
Boil
30 min(s)
4.5
4.5
Hallertau
0.5
Pellet
Boil
15 min(s)
4.5
2.9
Styrian Goldings
0.5
Pellet
Boil
15 min(s)
5.3
3.4

Yeast

Wyeast Scottish Ale 1728
71%

Other Stuff

Anise
0.1
oz
Boil
Irish Moss
1
tsp
Boil
bitter orange
0.25
oz
Boil
sweet orange
1
oz
Boil
Anise
0.1
oz
Boil
Clove
0.1
oz
Boil

Mash Steps

No mash steps in this recipe

Special Instructions

No special instructions in this recipe

Tasting Notes (1)

HopNation

Tasted on 1/5/2014 by HopNation

Notes:

Dark with red huge spices dry and spiced dry needs aging... tasted at 21 days

Comments

  • ctorx

    Did this ever get brewed? I'm curious how it turned out.

    11 years ago
  • HopNation

    Hi, it did get brewed with some additions of hops. Primary fermentation went for about 3 weeks. After tasting and realizing that the spice and ibus were way off the charts we did a secondary fermentation with cherry juice, dried cherries and raisins. For about 3 more weeks with some high activity. After tasting before bottling beer was a little more balances with fruit and not as dry. Although the star anise is way to strong and would probably omit it next time. it been bottled for about 2 weeks now and will be tasting at 4-6 weeks in hopes the beer will age into something great. Abv 9.2% only time will tell with this one.

    11 years ago
  • ctorx

    I bet it's going to be awesome. Just bottle it and forget about it until December.

    11 years ago
  • HopNation

    yes im hoping its going to be great! will post feed back from 6 week tasting

    11 years ago

Recipe Facts

Bad Santa Holiday Ale
English Barleywine
  • 5.50 Gallons Liters Batch Size
  • 8.00 Gallons Liters Boil Size
  • 90  min Boil Time
  • 1.120 OG
  • 1.035 FG
  • 41.9 IBU (brewgr) Bitterness
  • 0.35 BG:GU
  • 39.8° SRM Color
  • 70% Efficiency
  • 11.0% ABV Alcohol
  • 435 per 12oz Calories
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English Barleywine

OG 0.995
1.120
OG: 1.080-1.120 / Your OG: 1.120
FG 0.995
1.120
FG: 1.018-1.030 / Your FG: 1.035
IBU 0
120
IBU: 35-70 / Your IBU: 42
SRM 0
40
SRM: 8-22 / Your SRM: 39.8
ABV 0
14
ABV: 8-12 / Your ABV: 11.0
BG:GU 0
2
BG:GU: 0.29-0.87 / Your BG:GU: 0.35

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