barrelled beer

[Yob]

Whose got em? What do you put in them? How big? What was in them originally?

I've got 2 ex Bourbon 100l single Malt Whisky barrels. One with RIS in it, about 3-4 months of age and the other has scotch ale, with s couple of weeks on it.

Still very strong whisky coming out of it and what I'm doing is taking and replacing, so took a keg out the other night and filled it back up again right away.. 5 kegs of RIS is probably a bit much to have sitting about in kegs.

The scotch ale is a collaborative barrel so will probably be emptied in one hit. Not sure yet what it'll be replaced with.

 

[blotto]

I don't but I've been thinking about it, I don't think I'd go 100l tho maybe 30l for some special projects. It's something that I'm interested in learning more about.

 

[Ciderman]

Whilst we're on the subject, those that do have 100l barrels, where do you get them from?

 

[Yob]

Trade secrets here sorry

 

[Ciderman]

 

[Yob]

your tag line says you have a bottled barrel aged RIS.. where d you manage to do that if you don't have a barrel?

 

[Ciderman]

I've got a 5L port barrel. I emptied that and barrel aged a portion of the batch.

 

[Mayor of Mildura]

I've got a 100l barrel that is from the Yalumba winery. It had shiraz in it.
So far I've had a clean porter through it. The recipe was somewhat like this http://www.brew365.com/beer_dennys_bourbon_vanilla_porter.php . I left out the vanilla and Bourbon. It picked up plenty of oak from the barrel.
Then it turned into a funk barrel. I was aiming for a flanders red style. I used the wyeast lambic blend and some dregs from commercial sours. This lasted for about 2 years. Over that time I kegged a bit here and there and replaced with new beer. A couple of months ago I kegged and bottled the lot.






Now it is full of stout. I plan on leaving this for a year or so.

 

[Kingy]

I brought a brand new (20litre) barrell and have run port through it for a few years now (3years) wonder weather I should drain and get some ris in there for a bit. I could also age some beer in corny keg with some really nice oak I got in a bulk buy from another forum for another hobby that I won't go into. The list of options is endless.

 

[Grainer]

Hardest this is finding someone willing to sell the firkin things under 100L

 

[mr_wibble]

RIS == Russian Imperial Stout ?

 

[Yob]

Yessir

 

[dannymars]

I have 4 X 15ltr barrels I got from the local boat club... They were just using them as wine serving displays... using plastic bladders (a step up from goon lol)... so, they had never held liquid... I washed them out and now age beer in them... I will eventually start aging all my lambics, but at the moment they are a bit sharp and woody.... just kegged a porter that I aged 1/2 in the barrel for 2 weeks then blended back into the clean half... turned out perfect, just the right amount of oak.

Oh yeah, I also use them tipped up on their ends as they only have one actual barrel head, the other end has a removable cap, which I just removed and covered the end with glad wrap... works great

 

[technobabble66]

... wonder weather I should drain and get some ris in there for a bit...

YES !!

I tried Yob's barreled RIS on Saturday.
Amazing stuff.

And the Mayor of mildura's Flanders Red from a couple of case swaps ago is one of the best beers I've ever had. I believe that's the beer he mentions above that had a year or 2 in a barrel.

Get on it if you can. Chop chop.

 

[Danwood]

Hardest this is finding someone willing to sell the firkin things under 100L

You really have to cask yourself "What is it so difficult ?"

 

[Mardoo]

It's a pain in the butt! Or is it a pain in half the butt?

 

[dannymars]

I was trying to stave-off making a barrel pun.

 

[Batz]

Hardest this is finding someone willing to sell the firkin things under 100L

Around 40 of us Qld. brewers are about to score one or more 100l babies each.

 

[Yob]

Impressive

National barrel brew swap next year?

 

[Ciderman]

Around 40 of us Qld. brewers are about to score one or more 100l babies each.

Too late to get some?