Overnight Mash Barley Wine (w pics)

[bluesboy]

Decided to try this again (I used to do it year's ago). I was making a barley wine and this is a good way of making strong beer.

Ingredients
7kg Maris Otter
1000g crushed crystal
200g torrified wheat
50g whole black
200g whole crystal
60gms Goldings

Saturday 10 May at 11.00 (at neet) added ingredients to mash tun at 74 deg c (I usually mash hot for flavour). Then wrapped the bairn up for the night



Sunday 11 May at 12.00 (I'm lazy and like to sleep) unwrapped the bairn.



Temperature down to 65 deg c a drop of 9 degs in 13 hours that will do me.



First runnings to be used for Barley wine so drained about 2 gallons off around about 1080 (at 50 deg c).




Into small boiler.



Carried on sparging to produce an ESB from remainder.



Boiled barley wine for 1 hour, cooled to 24 deg c, nice and thick wort at 1200.



Nottingham yeast used, this is the tricky bit getting it to ferment, fingers crossed.

Pros & Cons of overnight mash (my opinion)
Pros
Excellent for strong beers
Maximise extraction from ingredients
Save 2 hours on brew day
Good for doing multiple strength beers from one batch of ingredients

Cons
None that I have ever encountered
I have heard if temperature drops too low (54 deg c or less?) then risk of infection or off flavours, but I have never had this happen to me.


Bluesboy

[prolix]

Looks very nice will have to try a barley wine at some stage

[prodigal2]

That looks a stunner Bluesboy.

If I had the dual boiler I would do your partigyle method.

And I must say your THA recipe is a house crowd pleaser, to which I must thank you. You know your onions, as they say

[ritchie]

y'knaa ah thowt ah could smell summat lush on the breeze this afternoon.

[bluesboy]

Yes that THA has gone down very well with my mates I only have one left and will enter that in the Yokshire Federation competition on May 31st.

It is well worth getting a second boiler if time is precious. I usually brew two 5 gallon batches which takes about 6 hours when I only do one it takes 5 hours so for the extra hour I have 5 gallons and saves me brewing another day.

[bluesboy]

y'knaa ah thowt ah could smell summat lush on the breeze this afternoon.

Yes I wondered what the neigbour's thought.

Everyone thought it was a sea fret hanging ower sooth sheels but it was me beer!

[prodigal2]

Yes that THA has gone down very well with my mates I only have one left and will enter that in the Yokshire Federation competition on May 31st.

It is well worth getting a second boiler if time is precious. I usually brew two 5 gallon batches which takes about 6 hours when I only do one it takes 5 hours so for the extra hour I have 5 gallons and saves me brewing another day.

I like your style Bluesboy
And it offers food for thought