There's a street called Foster in SE Portland that has been long neglected and considered the bad part of town. It's been referred to as "felony flats" amongst other bad terms. Well, it's making a comeback and it's going to be awesome. Part of what's happening is people are taking back the neighborhood and making stuff happen. One of the groups working towards this is a
creative group that is putting on a monthly event called "Foster Art Night". This is essentially a moving party that happens on the third Saturday of the month from roughly 2p to late PM.
This month (as in a week and a half),
The Southeast Church is going to host art and music as part of the event. We're going to also offer free homebrew (a fairly limited amount though). This IPA is going to go towards that (well, at least half of it). Hence the name of the brew. If you're in the Portland area and want to taste it, come to The Day Theatre on SE Foster at 55th Ave on Saturday the 18th between 4pm and 5pm and we'll be serving it up!
Recipe:
11 gallons
Fermentables:
17 lb GW 2-Row Base
5 lb Simpsons Golden Promise
3 lb GW Crystal 40L
2.4 lb CaraPils
8 oz Dextrose (corn Sugar)
Anticipated OG: 1.066
Actual OG: 1.071
Anticipated FG: 1.019
Actual OG:
ABV:
Hops:
3 oz CTZ for 60m
2 oz CTZ for 30m
2 oz Cascade for 10m
4 oz Cascade in Hopback (mash tun)
3oz Cascade for 7 days Dryhop
2oz CTZ for 7 days Dryhop
(total of 1 pound of hops!)
Yeasts:
Fermentis Safale 05 in one bucket
White Labs WLP001 California Ale in other bucket
Notes:
This brewday took a long time. Everything was going smoothly until the boil time. Instead of using the normal boiling station I moved the boil kettle up to the second tier so I could gravity feed to the mash tun that I was going to use for a hopback. The only problem was that it took an hour and a half to get the wort up to boiling, then had to boil it for an hour, plus a long wort chilling since the screen would get a little plugged from the hops in the mash tun/hopback. Time to get a pump I guess so I can use my actual boil burner for boiling. Oh well, it's all part of the learning process...
Update 8/12/12: Racked the batch for Foster Art Night to secondary and added 1.5 oz of Cascade and 1oz of CTZ Dryhops. Gravity was 1.018, so an ABV of roughly 6.9%. Flavor was smooth, hoppy, and awesome.
Update 8/19/12: Unveiled this at Foster Art Night last night. Response was really good, although there was a rather small crowd there (if 12-15 people is considered a crowd). So the leftovers will go towards
Cana.
