Thursday, May 26, 2011

New IPA and some thrash

Allright, ive been been building up hops now for a few months and i decided to brew up some sort of demented  Macgyver recipe using every last hop i had in my freezer. here it goes...

Brew day 5/25/11... IPA?
aiming at 5 1/2 gal into fermentor

12# two row
1/2# honey malt
1/2# crystal 40
1# corn sugar

I mashed at 148 Fahrenheit for 2 hours because i had to leave the house,
single batch sparge

1 oz cascade (whole) mash hop
.5 oz cascade 60 min
1 oz Hallertau 60 min
1.25 oz columbus 45 min
1 oz magnum 35 min
1.2 oz east kent goldings 10 min

approx 100-110 IBU


whirlfloc tab and teaspoon of yeast nutrient at 10 min as-well
ferment at 65 and slowly rise to 70 after 2-3 days

OG 1.070

I reused a white labs 001 cal ale yeast cake from a couple weeks ago

sexy
ice bath till i got down to about 62F

Hell yeah, it was a fun brew day. The sample tasted awesome, however it did not have a lingering hop bitterness. I plan on dry hopping with centennial and amarillo. Ill let you guys know how it turns out in a few weeks. 

Now to the fucking thrash...






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