Decided that I wanted to brew again. But Also remembered I smashed my other carboy last fall.
But I did have a 5 gallon bucket doing nothing, and I also had a can of LME laying around. So lets do a 3 gallon batch.
Had to get a few things other things and dig out my smaller 2 gallon mash tun. Couldn’t find all the parts, so gotta do it the old fashion way. Strainer.
No idea how this will end up. I just sorta thew stuff together.
Any hoo. here ’tis

The extract Barley wine
2 cans of light LME
1 lb 2row
1lb 60L
1/8 lb 120L
1/2 lb flaked barley
1 oz chinook at 60
1 oz fuggles at 15
Windsor yeast

pretty strait forward full boil extract recipe. (maybe call it a mini mash)

-heated just under a gallon of water to 163. added to my small mash tun. So not sure how this may settle at.

-Gonna start 4 gallons of water to boil.
-temp bit a bit low at 152, so adding about half coffee can of the 180 water from kettle. And we now settled at 157.
-got extract in and starting to restart boil. been mashing 45 min. i think its done. cant find my Iodine so gonna sparge it out.

-dont seem to be losing as much boil off from this pot I’m using.
– sure like that I can run the fire at almost nothing and keep a rolling boil.
-Done. Cools damn fast these days.
-OG is mere 1.080. somehow thought it would be higher.
– the color change from pre boil to boil was a lot I would guess 12ish to start and 23ish at end of boil.

I kinda like doing these smaller extract batches.