My first recipe

[noremorse1]

This is a mini-mash

3 pounds American 2 Row
1 pound Crystal 40
7 pounds Gold LME

1 oz Centennial 60 min
1 oz Centennial 20 min
2 oz Centennial 5 min
1 oz Centennial Dry Hop

Yeast: Safale US-05

Mash at 152f for 60 minutes. Ferment at 62 degrees for 7-10 days. Transfer to secondary, add hops. Rack in 7-10 days to keg or bottling vessel.

OG at 75% Efficiency for 5 gallons is 1.070
IBU's 78.4

 

[Bob]

Looks good to me! Nice and simple, that's what I like.

Have fun!

Bob

 

[nukebrewer]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and says that's an IPA or an APA. Either way I'd up the dry hops by about an ounce or so. But I'm hophead, so I would up the hops in anything lighter than an amber ale Good luck with your first recipe.

EDIT: Now that I look at the amount of malt you're using, I would say Double IPA, but my advice to up the dry hops still stands.

EDIT 2: You didn't say whether you were doing a late extract addition or not, but I ran your recipe through BeerSmith and as long as you do a late extract addition for five of your seven pounds of DME, then you should be fine

 

[bob1852]

good looking beer. Nice and hoppy! Post the results and let us know how it turns out.

 

[noremorse1]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and says that's an IPA or an APA. Either way I'd up the dry hops by about an ounce or so. But I'm hophead, so I would up the hops in anything lighter than an amber ale Good luck with your first recipe.

EDIT: Now that I look at the amount of malt you're using, I would say Double IPA, but my advice to up the dry hops still stands.

EDIT 2: You didn't say whether you were doing a late extract addition or not, but I ran your recipe through BeerSmith and as long as you do a late extract addition for five of your seven pounds of DME, then you should be fine

I get my malt in bulk so all I can do with extract is estimate. I almost always add half of the lme at the beginning and half with about 15 minutes left. That is what I did here.

The hydrometer reading came in at exactly 1.070. I rehydrated my yeast and pitched. I probably should of pitched 2 packets but, we shall see. It is fermenting nicely at about 67 degrees right now. It has warmed up with fermentation kicking off.

I would rather have it at 62 but, this is a really clean yeast. I still dont have my temperature controller in for my fermentation chamber. When I do... WOOHOO

Question for you. I read on the Danstar page that with highly floculant yeasts it will suck up some of the IBU's. You have any idea how much?

 

[noremorse1]

Just took my first hydrometer reading after 5 days in the primary. It is looking like its between 1.012 and 1.014. Woohoo... I didn't get the 1.020 blues even at 64-66ish.

Tasted pretty green but, that is to be expected. Many was it bitter too. This could be one of my best brews yet and the beauty is, I created the recipe. Well, sorta. I took one I liked and made a bunch of changes to it.

 

[s3n8]

That should taste pretty close to Bells Two Hearted Ale. Very simple grain bill, all Centenial. I would love it, you should too

 

[noremorse1]

That should taste pretty close to Bells Two Hearted Ale. Very simple grain bill, all Centenial. I would love it, you should too

My favorite IPA. I modeled it after 2 Hearted but, more alcohol and slightly more IBU's.