I brewed an English Barleywine with my friends Chris and Nate over Easter weekend. We brewed it at Chris' house, at Valley Farm.
Had a few issues. First, I managed to knock the manifold off the ball valve of the mash tun during mash in. Didn't turn out to be too big a problem, the runoff cleared quickly, and we ran off abouut 7.5 gallons, and had an og of 1.088, or about 72% efficiency. Not bad considering nothing in the bottom inch or so made it out.
The second issue was post-fermentation. Chris fermented the beer at his house, and we had a vigorous ferment and blow-off. Chris attached the blow-off tube, no problem. He moved the beer to his cellar when fermentation was complete to crash out the yeast. Unfortunately, he left the blow-off tube on and the lower temp caused iodophor to be sucked into the carboy. We talked about it, he ended up racking the beer out from under the iodophor, and I am waiting to hear about the fg. Fingers crossed on this one, and lesson learned for sure.
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