I know, I know. It’s an awful name. But I’m tired and I’m not feeling very imaginative. But given a two hop brew what more can you do?
Fortunately when I concocted the actual recipe (below) I was feeling imaginative!
Fermentable | Colour | lb: oz | Grams | Ratio |
Belgian Pale Malt | 9 EBC | 11 lbs. 0.4 oz | 5000 grams | 83.3% |
Vienna Malt | 10 EBC | 2 lbs. 3.3 oz | 1000 grams | 16.7% |
Hop Variety | Type | Alpha | Time | lb: oz | grams | Ratio |
Chinook | Whole | 13.3 % | 60 mins | 0 lbs. 1.1 oz | 30 grams | 74.9% |
Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 10 mins | 0 lbs. 0.9 oz | 25 grams | 16.2% |
Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 5 mins | 0 lbs. 0.9 oz | 25 grams | 8.9% |
Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.9 oz | 25 grams | 0% |
Chinook | Whole | 13.3 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.4 oz | 10 grams | 0% |
Amarillo | Whole | 9.5 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.9 oz | 25 grams | 0% |
Chinook | Whole | 13.3 % | 0 mins | 0 lbs. 0.4 oz | 10 grams | 0% |
Final Volume: | 23 | Litres |
Original Gravity: | 1.059 | |
Final Gravity: | 1.014 | |
Alcohol Content: | 5.8% | ABV |
Total Liquor: | 34.3 | Litres |
Mash Liquor: | 15 | Litres |
Mash Efficiency: | 75 | % |
Bitterness: | 50 | EBU |
Colour: | 18 | EBC |
Maltwise, I wanted to use Belgian pale malt for the distinctive malt character that it would impart, as opposed to something like Maris Otter, which I didn’t think would be entirely appropriate. I wanted to get a little extra in the mouthfeel so I thought I might give the old Vienna malt a whirl, too.
Hops-wise, and this being an American IPA style, it had to be big and punchy so Chinook for bittering and aroma, backed up by masses of Amarillo for taste and aroma.
For yeast I went with US-05 as it gives me just the right sort of clean flavour profile…i.e. not too much character, leaving plenty of spacefor the hops to pop.
Brewday:
Got the mash on at lunchtime that eventually yielded about 8 litres of beautiful smelling wort, and after a couple of 10.5 litre batch sparges I eventually ended up with 28.5 litres of wort of about 1055 SG, after boiling I was hoping that this would be somewhere around 1058
The boil went on at 8.20pm with the first hop charge, and the subsequent charges followed according to the recipe.
The cooler went on at 9.20pm with the last hefty hop charge of 25gm Amarillo and 10gb Chinook. The beer was cool enough to get into the ferementer at 10pm and was a healthy 1059 SG (all being well this should come out at about 6.2% ABV after fermentation)
It’s now merrily bubbling away at a nice 18C in my spare room. Soon I’ll be hitting it with a generous 25gm dry hop of amarillo which should spice things up nicely.
I’ll update the blog as I get further through this brew
Like the recipe. I just brewed an IPA very similar to this just with cascade vs amarillo, tasting it this weekend can’t wait, should be a hop bomb.
Nice blog name btw.
Thanks for looking in…I’m hoping it’s going to be a hop monster too. Keep an eye out for a future post detailing the partner brew to this one, which will be the same malt bill but with Cascade supporting the Chinook bittering charge. It’s going to be a hoppy summer.! Nice.
Good luck with the tasting…let us know how it goes!
Will do! I hope to make a post on my page about the tasting notes. I’m comparing it with the first version of the IPA recipe I made. Going to be a hoppy weekend!
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