Here are the notes from the first IPA I brewed, it came out amazing!
1/21/07
Snowflake IPA
8# Pale Malt Extract
2# Great Western 2-row Pale Malt
1# Crystal 15L
4oz Centennial whole aa 9.0%
4oz Cascade whole aa 6.6%
0.25oz Amarillo whole aa 9.8%
1oz Columbus pellets aa 15.6% (dry hop)
Re-pitched on Wyeast 1056 yeast cake from Magic Hat #9 (73-77% Attenuation)
-Steep grains at 160*F 30 min, remove grain bag and bring wort to boil.
-Add LME
-Add Amarillo, and 2 oz Centennial (0’
-Add 2 oz Cascade (15’
-Add 2 oz Centennial (30’
-Add 2 oz Cascade (50’
and ¼ tsp irish moss
-Turn off at 60’, strain into cooling bucket, cool to 75*F, dump onto yeast cake, aerate.
OG 1.052 @ 60*F
1/28/07 Racked to secondary, added Columbus hops)
SG 1.020 @ 68*F (1.021 temperature corrected, 62% attenuation…
2/7/07 SG 1.019 @58*F (1.019 corrected, 64% attenutation)
2/10/07 FG 1.019, bottled, 4.4% ABV