It's been over two weeks since I've brewed, so I'm itching to get back on the burner. Hopefully this will end up in a Cornie Keg once I get the kegerator going next month.
So this will be my first time making up a recipe, so I figured I needed to go all out and make some high gravity, high hop IPA. Hopefully this turns out well. I plan to brew this on Friday or Saturday this week. Here's the proposed recipe:
Malts:
12lbs American 2-Row
2lbs Crystal 40L
1lb Carapils
Hops:
Boil Hops:
.75oz Centennial (60m)
3oz Cascade (60m)
.5oz Simcoe (60m)
1oz Colombus (10m)
1oz Simcoe (10m)
.75oz Centennial (10m)
1oz Cascade (1m)
1oz Simcoe (1m)
1oz Colombus (1m)
Dry Hops:
2oz Colombus for 7 days
2oz Simcoe for 7 days
Yeast:
Wyeast 1056 Slurry
Extras:
1tsp Gypsum at Boil
1tsp Irish Moss at 15m
Anticipated OG: 1.082
Anticipated FG: 1.020
Anticipated IBU's: 113
Color (SRM): 8.3
ABV: 8%
I'll update after brewing to give the details....
Brewing Update 3/18/11: Brewing went quite smooth. My Wort Chiller is awesome, it only takes about 7 minutes to chill from a boil to 68 degrees. The only hitch I had was the same as last time...I can't get to the target Original Gravity. I ended up at 1.060 instead of the 1.082. This will just be a lower bodied ale I guess...oh well. I had to make a few changes to the hop bill as well since Amarillo is out of stock at Brew Brothers. I also added a little more hops to make it up to 113 IBU's instead of 108. I was also able to enjoy a tasty Steam Face while brewing as well as a Cheerilee Scottish Ale. Both were quite good. Hopefully I can at least get this down to 1.010 to give it a decent body...
Update 3/22/11: Gravity is has been at 1.016 for a couple days...decent flavor and body. I'll rack to secondary, cold crash, and add the dry hops either tonight or tomorrow afternoon. I'm going to dry hop it for at least a week with loose leaf hops and hope it strains out ok.
Update 3/29/11: I racked this to secondary last week and added 2oz of Simcoe, loose style in the beer. Hope this will turn out. After a few days I moved it to the garage for a cold crash. I should be getting some cornie kegs this weekend, so I'll just keg this one then.
Update 4/3/11: Bottled this up after 10 days secondary with hops floating in it. That was a little tricky. Got 17 22's and 10 12's. Not quite as much as I would have liked, but hopefully they are tasty. We'll find out in a few weeks.
Update 4/9/11: Tasted this tonight...still a little flat, but a BIG HOP FLAVOR! This turned out really well. I can't wait for this to be fully ready.
CBHC?
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