I'm brewing a DIPA tomorrow and this is the grain I have (5.5 gal batch)
13.8# 2-row (81%)
14.4oz Munich (5.3%)
13oz Crystal 20 (4.7%)
12oz Cara-pils (4.5%)
6oz wheat malt (2.2%)
6oz honey malt (2.2%)
This is based on the Can You Brew It? KRBC Citra recipe. I don't have that much Citra, but I do have a lot of Galaxy that I want to use. Here's what I have:
8oz Galaxy (13.3%AA)
1oz Nugget (13.3%AA - want to use for bittering)
4oz Citra (11.4%AA)
3oz Simcoe (12.2%AA)
2oz Amarillo (9.3%AA)
I don't intend to use all of these for this beer, but a good amount of them. I hadn't intended to buy the Citra or Simcoe but they had both so I got a bit. Here's what I tentatively had, again based roughly on the Citra recipe:
1oz Nugget at 60min
1oz Galaxy at 30
1oz Galaxy at 15
1oz Galaxy at 10
1oz Galaxy at 5
1oz Galaxy at 0
1oz Galaxy and 0.5oz Amarillo first dry hop
1oz Galaxy and 1oz Amarillo second dry hop
1oz Galaxy last dry hop (all dry hops 3 days apart)
I'd also like to put the other 0.5oz Amarillo into the boil at some point to use it up. As it stands now the calculated IBU is 97. Other suggestions for the hops?
Also, any help on water suggestions would be great. Our tap water here isn't very good in Phoenix and we have a water softener, so I was thinking about getting RO water and treating with calcium chloride and gypsum. I read thru a good bit of the primer on here about it and from what I can see, if you want to use RO then adding the CaCl2 and gypsum is the thing to do.
Thanks!
13.8# 2-row (81%)
14.4oz Munich (5.3%)
13oz Crystal 20 (4.7%)
12oz Cara-pils (4.5%)
6oz wheat malt (2.2%)
6oz honey malt (2.2%)
This is based on the Can You Brew It? KRBC Citra recipe. I don't have that much Citra, but I do have a lot of Galaxy that I want to use. Here's what I have:
8oz Galaxy (13.3%AA)
1oz Nugget (13.3%AA - want to use for bittering)
4oz Citra (11.4%AA)
3oz Simcoe (12.2%AA)
2oz Amarillo (9.3%AA)
I don't intend to use all of these for this beer, but a good amount of them. I hadn't intended to buy the Citra or Simcoe but they had both so I got a bit. Here's what I tentatively had, again based roughly on the Citra recipe:
1oz Nugget at 60min
1oz Galaxy at 30
1oz Galaxy at 15
1oz Galaxy at 10
1oz Galaxy at 5
1oz Galaxy at 0
1oz Galaxy and 0.5oz Amarillo first dry hop
1oz Galaxy and 1oz Amarillo second dry hop
1oz Galaxy last dry hop (all dry hops 3 days apart)
I'd also like to put the other 0.5oz Amarillo into the boil at some point to use it up. As it stands now the calculated IBU is 97. Other suggestions for the hops?
Also, any help on water suggestions would be great. Our tap water here isn't very good in Phoenix and we have a water softener, so I was thinking about getting RO water and treating with calcium chloride and gypsum. I read thru a good bit of the primer on here about it and from what I can see, if you want to use RO then adding the CaCl2 and gypsum is the thing to do.
Thanks!