Victory Brewing’s Old Horizontal Barleywine will not make an appearance in 2012. As Victory grows, so does the demand for their products. Why? Bill Covaleski basically explains it like this:
With most of our beers, we can use the second-runnings of sugar-rich wort (the pre-fermentation liquid from the brew) in the recipe. That is not the case with Old Horizontal, so we have to brew twice as much in order to make half the yield of a “regular” Victory beer. With our brewhouse running at peak capacity, we literally can’t afford the time for our precious Old Horizontal.
There will be some cellared kegs of Old Horizontal hitting tap handles at the pub in 2012. Dates to be announced.