With great cause for optimism about my most recent GF IPA, I reckon I'll brew another one in a slightly different direction just to build up a stock-pile of solidly drinkable non-experimental GF homebrews. I'm really curious about chinook hops, so I threw this recipe together:
2 lb sorghum extract
2 lb rice syrup solids
1 lb D-45 candi syrup
1 lb sweet potato
0.5 lb buckwheat honey
hop schedule (edited 4/19/12)
0.5 oz willamette at 60 min
0.75 oz chinook at 25 min
0.75 oz chinook at 5 min
0.5 oz chinook, dry hop for 5 days at the end of secondary fermetation
Nottingham Ale yeast
Sweet potato should be pureed and step-mashed as describe in http://www.jbc.org/content/44/1/19.full.pdf prior to the boil.
Target OG: 1.067
Target FG: 1.016 (6.8% ABV)
Target IBU: 74.7
I've heard that chinook can be harsh as a bittering hop, so I'm relying on willamette for the 60 min addition and using the chinook for flavor and aroma. I'm intrigued by all the descriptions I've read of chinook's supposed "piney" character, though many years ago when I used to drink Arrogant Bastard, I don't recall noticing any obvious piney notes to it. However, since I'm still learning a lot about hops, I'm wondering if any of y'all have brewed with chinook and if you think my hop schedule is over-doing it (or under-doing it!).
2 lb sorghum extract
2 lb rice syrup solids
1 lb D-45 candi syrup
1 lb sweet potato
0.5 lb buckwheat honey
hop schedule (edited 4/19/12)
0.5 oz willamette at 60 min
0.75 oz chinook at 25 min
0.75 oz chinook at 5 min
0.5 oz chinook, dry hop for 5 days at the end of secondary fermetation
Nottingham Ale yeast
Sweet potato should be pureed and step-mashed as describe in http://www.jbc.org/content/44/1/19.full.pdf prior to the boil.
Target OG: 1.067
Target FG: 1.016 (6.8% ABV)
Target IBU: 74.7
I've heard that chinook can be harsh as a bittering hop, so I'm relying on willamette for the 60 min addition and using the chinook for flavor and aroma. I'm intrigued by all the descriptions I've read of chinook's supposed "piney" character, though many years ago when I used to drink Arrogant Bastard, I don't recall noticing any obvious piney notes to it. However, since I'm still learning a lot about hops, I'm wondering if any of y'all have brewed with chinook and if you think my hop schedule is over-doing it (or under-doing it!).