#54: Best Cellar Barley Wine

Brewed July 24, 1989, bottled September 4, 1989.

Ingredients for 5 gallons

: 20 pound of pale malt
: 3 pounds of light crystal malt
: 3 ounces Fuggles pellets, 5.0 alpha, 75 minutes
: 3 ounces Cascade pellets, 5.0 alpha, 75 minutes
: 1 ounce Cascade pellets, 5.0 alpha, 15 minutes
: 2.75 ounces Cascade pellets, dry hop
: Chico Ale Yeast
: Mash: Dough in at 100 degrees, rest 15 minutes. Add 1 gallon of boiling water to raise to 120 degrees, rest for 15 minutes. Raise to 150 degrees, rest 60 minutes. Add 1 gallon of boiling water to raise to 156 degrees, which is when I ran out of propane.

Sparge: with 170 degree water down to 1.040.

Pre-boil: 75 minutes before first hop addition. to reduce to about 7 gallons.

Boil: 75 minutes

O.G.: 1.090

F.G.: 1.012

Racked on 8/1 and 8/6 (dry hopped), and 8/12.

Primed with 1 cup of corn sugar and 2 cups of lactose.

Comments: This beer failed to carbonate, so I re-ptiched some fresh yeast in each bottle after a couple of years.

Awards?: 4th palce Bay Area Brew Off, 1990.