As happens periodically in the home brewery, I find a lot of grain that needs to be turned into beer quickly before it gets stale. That usually results in some crazy high-gravity beer experiment, like today's American Barleywine batch. I decided to really bump close to the limits of Lallemand CBC-1 (Cask and Bottle Conditioning) dry yeast for this batch, by aiming for a wort that would ferment out to something around 16% ABV. It's fairly common to make a beer like this using only base malt, but I wanted a little more complexity to mine, so I'm using a small amount of Special B and English Medium Crystal. Ingredients 4 pounds Briess 2-row Brewer's Malt 12.75 pounds Maris Otter Malt 1 pound German Pilsner Malt 3 pounds Belgian Pale Ale Malt 8 ounces Special B Malt 8 ounces Medium Crystal Malt 16 ounces Demerara Sugar 1/2 tsp. Irish Moss 1/4 tsp. Brewtan B in the mash 1/2 tsp. Brewtan B in the boil (20 min) 1 tsp. Yeast Nutrient 1 ounce Bravo hops (60 min.) 1 ounce Cente...