Reedkellough
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Hey everyone. I would love some feedback on an Imperial IPA recipe I am trying to come up with. Up to this point all the batches I have done have been Extract Kit based, some with no changes, some I have made minimal additions to boil (agave nectar, DME, additional hops, turbinado sugar) and in fermentation (dry hop, dark rum and oak chips). I recently bought Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels, which is a must have IMO, but either way between that, ibrewmaster, and hopville I have come up with a starting point but its my first time so I feel I could be missing a ton here and would love to hear any and all feedback and suggestions about variations of hop additons/times and anything else. There are a few basic guidelines I set out to achieve when creating this beer: 1. Imperial IPA 2. between 7-9% ABV 3. IBU between 70-90 (trying to keep close to ABV=IBU) 4. Use of basically 2 hops (columbus and chinook -both leaf) throughout process w/ multiple additions including dry hopping
I will not be brewing this beer for a few weeks as I still have another brew to make first. I figured this would allow some time for suggestions and tweaking of the recipe before I need to make a run to the LHB for my goodies... I already have some of what I will need (mostly in the hops area) but always enjoy a brew shopping trip
Well here she is:
Hop-Sanity
5 Gallon batch - 3.75 gallon boil
Steep at 155 for 30 min
12 oz Carmel 40L
8 oz Carapils
4 oz Flaked Wheat
4 oz Flaked Barley
Bring to a Boil and add the following:
6 lbs Golden Light LME
3 lbs Golden Light DME
8 oz Turbinado Sugar - 20 min
12 oz Agave Syrup (Pale) - 5 min
Hop Schedule
1 oz Chinook Leaf - 60 min
0.5 oz Chinook Leaf - 30 min
0.5 oz Columbus Leaf - 30 min
0.5 Columbus Leaf - 15 min
0.75 Chinook Leaf - 10 min
1 oz Zythos Pellet - 2 min
1.5 oz Columbus Leaf - Dry Hop 14 days
0.75 oz Chinook Leaf - Dry Hop 5 days
0.5 oz Columbus Leaf - Dry Hop 5 days
I will be using a hop spider for the hops because I have heard leaf hops in the boil can be a mess and a half...
Yeast Used
White Labs WLP001 Cali - washed from prior batch, making starter
Projected Numbers
OG: 1.081
FG: 1.019
SRM: 10
IBU: 86
BU/GU: 1.07
ABV: 8.3%
Recipe on Hopville: http://hopville.com/recipe/1674899
I will not be brewing this beer for a few weeks as I still have another brew to make first. I figured this would allow some time for suggestions and tweaking of the recipe before I need to make a run to the LHB for my goodies... I already have some of what I will need (mostly in the hops area) but always enjoy a brew shopping trip
Well here she is:
Hop-Sanity
5 Gallon batch - 3.75 gallon boil
Steep at 155 for 30 min
12 oz Carmel 40L
8 oz Carapils
4 oz Flaked Wheat
4 oz Flaked Barley
Bring to a Boil and add the following:
6 lbs Golden Light LME
3 lbs Golden Light DME
8 oz Turbinado Sugar - 20 min
12 oz Agave Syrup (Pale) - 5 min
Hop Schedule
1 oz Chinook Leaf - 60 min
0.5 oz Chinook Leaf - 30 min
0.5 oz Columbus Leaf - 30 min
0.5 Columbus Leaf - 15 min
0.75 Chinook Leaf - 10 min
1 oz Zythos Pellet - 2 min
1.5 oz Columbus Leaf - Dry Hop 14 days
0.75 oz Chinook Leaf - Dry Hop 5 days
0.5 oz Columbus Leaf - Dry Hop 5 days
I will be using a hop spider for the hops because I have heard leaf hops in the boil can be a mess and a half...
Yeast Used
White Labs WLP001 Cali - washed from prior batch, making starter
Projected Numbers
OG: 1.081
FG: 1.019
SRM: 10
IBU: 86
BU/GU: 1.07
ABV: 8.3%
Recipe on Hopville: http://hopville.com/recipe/1674899