Beer Style: Wood-Aged Beers
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.
Guthrie’s Woody Imperial Stout (Oak-Aged)
Terry Foster utilizes bourbon barrel soaked oak cubes to create a complex and layered imperial stout.
The Bruery: Mash clone
The specifications for this English-style barleywine are all pre-barrel aging numbers. After aging in a bourbon barrel, the beer is above 13% ABV.
Sun King Brewing Company: Tequila Barrel-Aged Fistful of Hops clone
“Fistful of Hops is a quarterly rotating seasonal IPA, which means every three months the hops change. We usually combine two to three varieties of hops together for each new release. The same varieties and proportion of hops are used all the way through the recipe including dry hopping.” – Dave Colt, Sun King Brewery
Perennial Artisan Ales’ Devil’s Heart of Gold clone
This is a recipe for Devil’s Heart of Gold, a whiskey barrel–aged wheat wine. The base beer, Heart of Gold, won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012.
Midnight Sun Brewing Company: Arctic Devil Barley Wine clone
This is an English-style barleywine brewed once each year and then aged in oak barrels several months before being released each fall.
Jester King Brewery: Das Uberkind clone
“Das Uberkind is our most used and versatile barrel-aged beer. We blend it with fresh, hoppy beer to make Das Wunderkind! We use it as the base beer for most of our fruit refermentation beers, and we also package it as a standalone beer.” – Garrett Cromwell, Head Brewer, Jester King Brewery
Firestone Walker Brewing Company: Double Barrel Ale clone
Double Barrel Ale utilizes the Firestone Union system, which will be very difficult to duplicate at home. But here is our best attempt at getting a Double Barrel Ale clone.
Anchorage Brewing Company: Love Buzz clone
Saison brewed with rose hips, peppercorns, and fresh orange peels. Second fermentation with Brettanomyces in Pinot Noir barrels. Dry-hopped with Citra® hops after an extensive time in the barrel.
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Sucaba clone
This English-style barleywine from Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, California) is aged in recently emptied Bourbon barrels to pick up flavors and alcohol from the Bourbon. While this beer goes into the barrel around 10% ABV, it comes out above 12%.
Anchorage Brewing Co.’s A Deal with the Devil clone
This massive American-style barleywine from Anchorage Brewing (Anchorage, Alaska) utilizes only one hop variety and loads of malt to ring in at 17% ABV. Anchorage ages it for 11 months in Cognac barrels.
