Recipes
Beer-style: Wood-Aged Beers
3 Sons Brewing Co.’s Summation clone
This is the base recipe for Summation, which 3 Sons often brews variations of with added flavors like coffee, vanilla, and more. If you wish to create a variation with adjuncts, add after barrel aging.
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Parabola clone
Parabola is arguably Firestone Walker’s most notorious barrel-aged beer and is released as a vintage beer each year. This imperial stout is thick with bold yet balanced flavors of chocolate, charred oak, vanilla, black cherry, and coffee.
Mortalis Brewing Co.’s Ophion clone
This is the base recipe for Ophion, which Mortalis has released numerous variants of over the years with differing aging times and occasional adjunct additions like vanilla beans, coconut, and more.
Revolution Brewing Co.’s Deth’s Tar clone
The base beer of Deth’s Tar is an English-style imperial oatmeal stout that Revolution ages in whiskey barrels.
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Oaktoberfest clone
Oaktoberfest has been part of the Firestone Walker lineup for about 20 years, but was originally a small volume beer brewed for Oktoberfest celebrations in and around the Paso brewery.
MASH Barrel Red Sour
MASH Barrel Red Sour (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.075 FG = 1.012IBU = 14 SRM = 15 ABV = 8.3% After the first MASH barrel had already soured we continued to
MASH Barrel Tripel
MASH Barrel Tripel (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.080 FG = 1.009IBU = 33 SRM = 4 ABV = 9.4% This is the fourth recipe members of the MASH homebrew club brewed
Pedal Haus Brewery’s Barrel-Aged Quad Clone
It’s a beer big in all regards: Aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, and alcohol. The beer has a full body, with enough carbonation (2.8 v/v) to give it a “lighter than it really is” feel to it. Though the alcohol is strong at 10.6% ABV, it is just one of many components to this complex beer that blend into the whole instead of standing out by itself.
It’s My Barrel, and I’ll Rye If I Want To
It’s My Barrel, and I’ll Rye If I Want To (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.064 FG = 1.016IBU = 29 SRM = 27 ABV = 6.4% Ingredients:3.25 lbs. (1.5 kg) Maris
Flanders Red Ale
Flanders Red Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.061 FG = ~1.008 IBU = 5 SRM = 22 ABV = ~7% Ingredients 3 lbs. (1.4 kg) Pilsner malt 3 lbs. (1.4
Vin Blanc IPA
Vin Blanc IPA (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.064 FG = 1.014 IBU = 58 SRM = 5 ABV = 6.4% Ingredients 9 lbs. (4.1 kg) Pure Idaho Pilsner malt 3
Abysmal Stout (Bourbon “Barrel” Aged)
A high-gravity stout that gets its oak character from cubes that were soaked in Bourbon or rye.
