Barley Wine, how long to leave in secondary?

[Foster]

Fella's,

I brewed an AG BW on 22 March. It made FG on 1st April. I then racked it into the secondary & dry hopped it.

Q; would I be better off to bottle it after 7-10days & let it condition, or leave it in the secondary for an extended period, say 30+ days & then bottle it.

any advice will be much appreciated.

cheers,

Fozz

 

[Foster]

To put this hot topic to bed ...lol

I bottled up after it had been in the secondary for 10 days.

 

[OneEye]

I'd say that was the better option. Unless you were doing a secondary in a keg under CO2 then putting it into bottles after dry hopping is the way I'd go. Otherwise you would potentially run the risk of oxidation, especially if you were considering cold crashing it. What was your OG/FG? I'm guessing it's an American Barleywine if you're dry hopping it?

 

[Foster]

1.094 / 1.020

Its a Nogne 100 clone with a boat load of fresh galaxy hops that were kindly donated to the newley formed Hobart Brewers. It was dry hopped with galaxy pellets. It tasted nice for an uncarbonated & fresh BW, which is hopefully going to be even better after ageing.

 

[OneEye]

Sounds awesome mate! Good luck with it