Craft Beer & Brewing Course
Mastering Barrel-Aged Stouts with Side Project Brewing
Side Project Owner/Brewer Cory King teaches you how to brew world-class barrel-aged stouts.
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Join Cory King for an in-depth look at designing + brewing some of the world's best stouts (Beer Barrel Time + Derivation). Throughout this course, Cory offers:
- Practical considerations from recipe inception to the final blend
- How to get the most out of every ingredient (including the barrel)
- How the final blend comes together
- And so much more!
This course includes the recipe from King's original homebrewed imperial stouts. He has tweaked it here and there over the years, but it is the foundation of his recipes and method for brewing big, heavy imperial stouts at Side Project.
Course contents
6 chapters, 21 lessons, 1h 26m of video
Chapter 1
Welcome to Mastering Barrel-Aged Stouts with Side Project Brewing
Chapter 2
Barrel-Aged Stout Recipe Considerations
- Building Your Water Profile3:56
- Beersmith's Brad Smith on Water and Mash pH
- John Palmer on Brewing Water
- Recipe Formulation17:24
- Oats: Not Just for Breakfast and Horses
- Beersmith's Brad Smith on Hitting High Mash Gravities
Chapter 3
Barrel-Aged Stout Brew Day + Process
- Brewing Process Considerations11:06
- Neil Fisher of Weldwerks on Brewing High-Gravity Stout for Barrel-Aging
Chapter 4
Barrel-Aged Stout Fermentation + Barrel Aging
- Fermenting Your Stout11:00
- Troubleshooting High-Gravity Beers
- Stan Hieronymus with Tips from High-Gravity Brewers
- Barrel Aging Process + Selection15:18
- Neil Fisher of Weldwerks on Barrel-Aging for Homebrewers
- Prepping Used Barrels for Aging Beer
Chapter 5
Barrel-Aged Stout Adjuncts
- What Is an Adjunct?
- Selecting + Working with Adjuncts16:31
- Neil Fisher of Weldwerks on Homebrewing an Adjunct Stout
Chapter 6
Wrap Up + Thank You
- Recipe: Cory King's Big Imperial Stout
- Thank you2:19
What students say
Must-see before you tackle a high-gravity brew
Lots of discussion and tips on how and why brewing high-gravity beers are different. Interesting discussion on their barrel blending approach.
Great course
Loved this course. Cory was down-to-earth and generous with his explanations. I thought the information was thorough and he answered all my questions.
Excellent Source of Information
Chuck full of info that you might want to know about when doing really high gravity stouts and overall insight into how you want to approach barrels when doing these beers. Its the nuance that will take your barrel project from good, to superb and this course helps dive into some of the tricks to get there.
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Mastering Barrel-Aged Stouts with Side Project Brewing Review
Great course! Loads of good information for all levels
Very Educational
Super educational course for someone who is new to brewing BA Stouts... or just Stouts in general
Side Project
Cory was awesome in describing his process for making big stouts for barrel aging.
Course for the Advanced High Gravity Brewer
Course was very informative but rather slanted towards the advanced brewer.
A great glimpse into mastering
This course is certainly a good starting point to get deeper into this time and labour requiring style which at the end might lead into really mastering it. It's definitely not an overnight project but definitely a long road with a lot of fun.