Cosmic Syzygy

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The base for this beer is a big English-style barleywine. It was brewed with a double mash, mainly imported floor-malted Maris Otter, but bolstered with some incredible specialty malts from @meccagrade. Their "Opal" malts provide notes of toasted graham, almond roca, and mild cocoa. The lengthy 8 hour boil helped to concentrate and intensify this amazing malt character, leading to a powerful carmel-forward wort. A hefty kettle dose of Pahto™ hops imparts a balancing bitterness to the beer, and age has mellowed this bitterness to just the right spot.For this release I chose to bottle up a single Caribbean rum barrel: an old, weathered cask from Appleton's. It held rum in Jamaica for at least 12 years! Before filling, this barrel had beautiful aromas of aged rum - dark brown sugar, orange zest, baking spice, and toffee.