What would you call this...?

Northern Brewer General
1

I made a “small” beer from the final runnings of NB’s basic Barleywine kit.

4 or 5 weeks primary, 3 weeks bottle or so, and I opened one last night. It’s downright decent.

The wort was 1.040

  • 2/3 oz Magnum at 60 minutes
  • 1/4 oz Magnum at 15 minutes
    -1/2 oz cascade at 15 minutes.

It’s fairly malty…toasty, with a wash of hop flavor toward the end of the swallow and after.

It was about a 3 gallon batch.

What would you call this beer? Not what goofy name would you give to it…but what style?

2

Without seeing the grain bill for the barley wine it is hard to tell.

But depending on that, either an american amber or american pale ale.

3

After looking at the original grainbill, I would say american pale ale all the way. And I am sure it did have a good toasty character with the maris otter base malt.

MASH INGREDIENTS
– 14.25 lbs. English Maris Otter
– 0.75 lbs Briess Caramel 80
– 0.5 lbs Briess Caramel 120