Ingredients for Home Brewing Barley Wine

"Hi I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village. In this next segment we would be covering some of the ingredients that we would be using in this recipe and how they are going to be building up to what we are looking for in this style. Now we are going to go into a little bit more detail about each of these individuals ingredients are adding to the beer. Vienna malt is a profile malty background. Munic malt is going to contribute a nice amber color and a nice bready malty flavor. The Vienna malt would contribute light flavor sweet flavor but with a very nice hint of bread. Crystal or caramel is going to give us some nice color as well as some caramel sweetness. Crystal or caramel one-twenty is going to add a lot of color to your beer, it is going to make it kind of a nice copper, even getting to a brownish color. It is going to have a very nice sweet, bitter sweet caramel flavor with a little bit of raisin or even with plum. Centinnels are fairly high of acid hops which probably would add a lot of bitterness. However you can provide some nice citrusy and floral tones. Shanok is a great high alpha acid US hop which provides some nice spicy, piny and distinctly grapefruit aromas. Cascade is a classic American hop with a very nice citrusy and floral aroma with just a little bit of grapefruit which is going to provide a moderate level of Alpha Acids. Simcoe is a very high Alpha Acid hop which will contribute a lot of bitterness, but has a very, very unique strong pine, almost candy-like aroma which will provide a great background for our beer. We're going to use Irish Moss to help with our protein coagulation. For yeast, the Fermentis Safale US-05 is going to provide a nice clean ferment that is capable of handling most alcohol levels. As a reminder, once again, we are going to go with our own tap water. But preferably, we are going to have it chlorine filtered using a Brita filter."