DIPA recipe critique

[realtree2]

I'm looking for thoughts on this DIPA recipe that I'm planning on brewing on Wednesday.

12 lbs. 2-row
1lb Victory
.5 lb Crystal 40
1.5 lb corn sugar (late add)
Single infusion at 150

1.5 oz Cascade FWH
1 oz Columbus 60
1 oz Columbus 30
1 oz Citra 10
1.5 oz Centennial 5
.5 oz Centennial dry hop 6 days
.5 oz Cascade dry hop 3 days
Fermenting with US-05

O.G. 1.079
IBU 105
SRM 8.5

 

[WayFrae]

It looks pretty good to me. I would change the hop schedule around a little bit. I think you will have a bitter beer with not a whole lot of hop flavor. I have never used FWH but I thought it was to replace the 60 min addition. With that in mind, I would do this:

1 oz Columbus FWH
1 oz Columbus 20 min
1 oz Citra 10 min
1.5 oz Centennial 5 min
1.5 oz Cascade Flameout (Or Hop Stand @180 for 30 min)
2 oz Centennial Dry Hop 6 days
2 oz Cascade Dry Hop 3 days

When I entered your recipe into BeerSmith it calculated your IBU at 132. This schedule is calculated at 110. I think you will get much better hop aroma and flavor with this schedule. I recently brewed a double IPA and only used 2 oz in the dry hop for 5 days and I wish I had at least doubled it, one ounce is definitely not enough for my tastes.

Hope this helps!

 

[jekeane]

I agree with WayFrae: a FWH and 60min will be quite bitter.

 

[realtree2]

According to my beersmith mobile app that IBU calculation is accurate. FWH gives a nice round bitterness and a good amount of flavor so I want to incorporate that. This is also for a 90 min boil.

 

[WayFrae]

According to my beersmith mobile app that IBU calculation is accurate. FWH gives a nice round bitterness and a good amount of flavor so I want to incorporate that. This is also for a 90 min boil.

Interesting. I am using BeerSmith mobile also and my numbers are way different from yours. The numbers I got were for a 60 min boil. Obviously do what you want, I just think that 60 minute addition would be better later in the boil to give more flavor. No matter what you do, definitely up the dry hops.

 

[realtree2]

Thank you for the advice. I will play with my beersmith I might have my setup off somehow. I did put this into brewer's friend and got closer to your numbers and will definitely tone down the bitterness. I did want to keep it around 100.

 

[RonPopeil]

15# of grain to get 1.079 sounds like you're left with around 4 Gal unless your extract efficiency is silly high. I average 74% EE and it takes me closer to 18# to net 1.079 at 5 Gal.

Either way I would step mash this like I always do with my DIPA's. try 150/155 split 60min/15min.

 

[peterj]

According to my beersmith mobile app that IBU calculation is accurate. FWH gives a nice round bitterness and a good amount of flavor so I want to incorporate that. This is also for a 90 min boil.

FWH will give little to no flavor. You will get even less flavor from FWH than from a 60 minute bittering addition (which is also almost none).

I agree that you need way more late hop and dry hop additions. I liked WayFrae's hop schedule. I would add at least 5 oz of hops in the last 15 or so minutes of the boil.

Also you can't physically get more than about 85-100 IBU in a beer because the wort becomes saturated with isomerized alpha acids at around that concentration. So I wouldn't worry about the specific IBU number because with a DIPA you're pretty much just wanting to max it out anyway.

 

[realtree2]

15# of grain to get 1.079 sounds like you're left with around 4 Gal unless your extract efficiency is silly high. I average 74% EE and it takes me closer to 18# to net 1.079 at 5 Gal.

Either way I would step mash this like I always do with my DIPA's. try 150/155 split 60min/15min.

Brewed it this afternoon and hit 1.076 @ 5.5gal. Which comes out to 72% efficiency according to both beersmith and brewer's friend. My last beer, an all Galaxy APA I hit 74%.