My super awesome wife has wanted a beer named after her, so here it is. This is a slight revision from a previous recipe, the CBHC Double IPA. She loved the CBHC, so I've revised it and changed the name to let people know how awesome my wife is. I added some Maris Otter to try to up the maltiness to make it more of an imperial IPA and changed the hop bill slightly to go with what I had in the freezer. Otherwise, this is very similar.
Recipe:
5.5 gallon
Grain Bill:
11 lb GW 2-Row
3.3lb Maris Otter
1.65 lb Crystal 40L
1.1lb Carapils
Mashed 6.4 gallons @ 163 for an hour
Triple Sparged 3 gallons @ 188
Got 4.3 gallons from mash and 3 gallons from sparge.
Boiled down almost perfectly to 5.5 gallons.
Broke my hydrometer the other day, so no gravity readings.
Theoretical Gravities (according to Brewpal):
OG: 1.085
FG: 1.021
IBU: 109
Hop Bill:
1.75oz Colombus for 60m
.75oz Centennial for 60m
1.25 Colombus for 10m
1.25 Centennial for 10m
1 oz Simcoe for 10m
1 oz Simcoe for 1m
2 oz Centennial for 1m
Dry hop for 7 days in secondary:
1.25 oz Centennial
1 oz Simcoe
Yeast:
Wyeast 1056 slurry
Others:
Meant to put in 1tsp of Irish Moss, then forgot.
Notes:
Super easy brew day again. 4 1/2 hours start to finish, including clean up. Other than not having a hydrometer, no problems. Even Jack wasn't too hard to handle. I have the grain drying on some old window screens so it won't rot in a bucket as it waits for Gregg's chickens to eat it.
So I got a hydrometer and measured this about 24 hours after fermentation started and it was at about 1.050, so I figure it was somewhere between 1.065 and 1.080 to start. We'll never know though...
Update 5/15/11: Gravity at 1.018. Still a ton of foam at the surface from the fermenting, so another couple days until I'll rack to secondary.
Update 5/18/11: Racked to secondary and added 1.25oz of Centennial and 1oz of Simcoe. I skipped the bag again and I'm letting them free float. FG: 1.016.
Update 5/23/11: Kegged and added 1oz of Simcoe to the keg. Let's hope this is hopped to the max! I'll let this chill until tomorrow and then quick charge it so I can hopefully tap the keg tomorrow night.
Update 5/25/11: Man, this is probably my best yet. Super hoppy and lots of flavor. I had to clean out the stem and the lid of loose hops that got stuck though...I may have to rethink that idea in the future.
DUDE, your wife looks like my old manager at Starbucks. Weird.
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