Beer Forum

This weekend I'm going to brew the American barleywine in Jamil's book. I'm going to go no sparge for the barleywine, and I was thinking of doing a second batch (partigyle) with the spent grains. I was thinking of just doing a pale ale, and topping that off with a little DME if my gravity is too low. I'm just curious what everyone else has done and what some other options would be.

Jason

We did a partigyle a couple of years ago and got 4 sets of batch spraged runnings out of it with no extra DME added. Something like 50# of english pale was the main mash, and was the only grain that went into the Barleywine. The next 3 had steeping grains done in separate pots just as if you were doing extract batches. Old Ale, Oatmeal stout, and hmm...maybe an Ordinary bitter were the other 3.

The Barleywine was bland and too sweet (we boiled to down too far, got terrible hop utilization, and it never carbonated) but the other 3 were perfectly fine. I think the Old Ale got a medal or two.

Here's a link with a lame webpage liked to crappy pictures of the event.