Irish Moss

[Mylo]

This is my wedding brew, the "Ball-and-Chain Barleywine", and I plan on sampling a small portion in September and aging the rest for a year (or two or three...)

Well, in the spirit of what it is, why don't you just give it to you wife to control. After the wedding, maybe she'll let you have one a week. Pretty soon it will be one every few months. Then you won't be allowed to have any. After a few years, you will be tired of bottled stuff, and you will want it in the can. A few years after that you will try to convince your wife that maybe it a good idea if you had two beers at once - or maybe you can convince her that you should invite your married friends over and he can taste your beer, while you taste his.

Ah, maybe you should just stay single. Then you can drink your beer anytime you want with your eyes closed. You can imagine that your homebrew tastes exactly like a Guiness, or a Pilsner Urquell, or any of the other beers in the Celebrator magazine.


Mylo

[BeerMan]

This past weekend I brewed a barley wine, but forgot to add the Irish moss at boil-off.

Its barleywine, let it sit quietly in a dark corner for 6 months before bottling and it will be nice and clear.

[meisterofpuppets]

DON'T FILTER HOMEBREW!

Seriously, filtering beer can take a lot of the complex flavor compunds out and take a lot of character out of the beer. Just let it sit.

I think Doc might disagree with you on that one, but to each his/her own.

I think filtration can remove very important flavor compounds. I would only filter a beer that needs to have a very clean flavor like a kolsch. I would never filter a barleywine.