Specialty IPA: Black IPA Black Seas (American Black Ale)

Brewed this a few times now and it has turned out great. Finishes at about 7.5% ABV. (Grain bill assumes 75% efficiency)

Grains:
12 lbs 2-Row
12.0 oz Carafa Special III
12.0 oz Caramel/Crystal 60
8.0 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine

Hops:
1.25 oz Columbus - First Wort
1.00 oz Centennial - 15 min
1.00 oz Cascade -10 min
1.00 oz Centennial - 5 min
1.00 oz Cascade -0 min

Dry Hop (7 Days)
1.00 oz Centennial
1.00 oz Cascade


Mash at 152F for 60min. Sparge to 7 Gal boil volume.

This looks great atom. I will be brewing this soon. Thanks for sharing

I like it. Nothing too crazy. Looks very balanced, dark and excellent. Hard to mess something up with Columbus, Centennial and Cascade!

I've since done it with a citra dry hop (2 oz to replace the centennial/cascade)...i think that keg went even faster.

Brewing this today atom. I cant wait to taste it. My mouth is watering as I write this.

EineProsit said:

Brewing this today atom. I cant wait to taste it. My mouth is watering as I write this.

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EineProsit, how did it turn out?

I dry hopped 7 days w/Citra & bottled it last weekend. Finished at 1.015. I drank a hydrometer cylinder full. It was already amazing. I'm probably gonna let it condition another week before I .......wait just now opened one. Needs another week but I can tell it's gonna be good. Kinda reminds me of a Founders porter right now.
Thanks again.

Just scaled this down for a 3 gallon batch. I'll be brewing it on Saturday or Sunday. I will follow up with my results!

j_foamstache said:

Just scaled this down for a 3 gallon batch. I'll be brewing it on Saturday or Sunday. I will follow up with my results!

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let me know how it goes...to match my current style of brewing i might combine the 15 and 10 min additions to a single 10 min and the 5 and 0 to a single flameout and do a 30 min whirlpool before chilling.

atom said:

let me know how it goes...to match my current style of brewing i might combine the 15 and 10 min additions to a single 10 min and the 5 and 0 to a single flameout and do a 30 min whirlpool before chilling.

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Will do, atom. I had to tweak the initial bittering hop addition to get it to ~65 IBU's but I'm keeping the 15, 10, 5, and 0 additions. Not a whole lot of variance there since they're all late additions.