[hopfenundmalz]

Just got the Zymurgy with the NHC winners in the mail today.  Looking at the winning recipes is always fun, and a good place for ideas.

I did a double take when I saw the title of the Category 19 winner - "Creative Destruction Barleywine".  Hey - that was my beer's  name!  

http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/CreativeDestructionBarleywine

Looking at the malt bill and hop times and rates, it was very similar.  Gravity was kicked up a notch, or 2.

I am flattered and humbled at the same time.  Very cool.  Very cool indeed.

[blatz]

nice jeff! I have been noodling around a new ABW recipe to make early next year that incorporates most of those ingredients (especially the hops), but instead I may just use your recipe since its obviously a great one!

[bluesman]

That's awesome. Congrats Jeff!

[tschmidlin]

Really cool Jeff

[a10t2]

That's a great name. I'm calling mine Big Dump, since it's brewed first thing in the spring and put away for the following winter.

[hopfenundmalz]

It has to do with reading "Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan about when I brewed that beer.  Adam Smith originated the term, of course.  Lots to things get used up in a Barleywine, to create something new, hence the name.

There are a few others I use.

"Sub-Prime Pilsner".  Bronze at the NHC this year.

"Irrational Exuberance" for the Imperial IPA's we brew.  No medals for those.