https://beer.thegremlyn.com/beer-style/english-barleywine/ Recent content in English Barleywine on Gremlyn's Beer Blog Hugo en-US Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:59:51 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/recipe/burton-ale/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:59:51 +0000 https://beer.thegremlyn.com/recipe/burton-ale/ <div id="attachment_268" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://beer.thegremlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/burton_ale_2015.png"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-268" class="size-thumbnail wp-image-268" src="https://beer.thegremlyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/burton_ale_2015.png" alt="Burton Ale from 2015" width="150" height="150" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-268" class="wp-caption-text">Burton Ale from 2015</p></div> <p>I wanted to create a high gravity beer that was special to me. I&#8217;d read about a mostly forgotten beer style in a book by <a href="http://zythophile.co.uk/">Martyn Cornell</a> called a Burton Ale, which seemed like the perfect thing to try. What I came up with is undoubtedly <em>not</em> a traditional Burton Ale, but my take on the style. I targeted the loosely defined style specs and to get to the gravity I wanted I decided to try a concentration boil. This recipe uses a 4 hour boil, intended to concentrate a standard strength wort into a high gravity wort and produce many complex flavours through Maillard reactions. Gravity and volume are tracked over time and hops are added when I determine 60 mins is left in the boil. I mash low to ensure fermentability of the high gravity wort.</p>