Gridlocked
Well-Known Member
So here's the story (and feel free to steal this idea for your friends or club if you'd like). I wanted to put together a little brewing related event together with a few friends of mine here in MN so I came up with the plan below. This all stemmed from the fact that I have two friends who are extremely detail and recipe orientated and I'm what I guess I refer to as a freestyle brewer. They measure their ingredients and use brewing software and I throw my hops into the kettle and use post-it notes to document my brewing experiences. The idea was to get them out of their detail-orientated boxes and into some uncharted waters.
The name of the contest is the PhuckenTed Spring IPA Challenge as I could hear my buddy Paul's reaction to the process sounding something like "$%(#ing Ted..."
Evaluation Day: Saturday, April 9th @ 2:00p (this is subject to change)
Location: TBD
All-Grain Requirements for 5 gallon batch:
10lbs. American Two-row
1lb. Specialty malt of your choice
1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter
8oz. specialty malt of your choice
8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)
Extract Requirements for 5 gallon batch:
EITHER (6.875lbs dry malt extract – pale malt)
OR (8.125lbs liquid malt extract – pale malt)
1lb. Specialty malt of your choice
1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter
8oz. specialty malt of your choice
8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)
*you can round up or down for the amount of extract, we don’t really care, but if you can get close, that’s RAD like Crew Jones.
Your Recipe Must include:
9oz of Hops. (2oz of these are left for a 7 day dry-hop)
Recipe must include THREE different kinds of hops.
Example:
3oz Cascade, 4oz Centennial, 2oz Simcoe = 9oz
Or: 7oz Cascade, 1oz Warrior, 1oz E. Kent Goldings = 9oz
2oz of dry hop must be chosen at random – and put in the freezer for dry hopping later
1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 60 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)
1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 10 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)
All subsequent hop additions added from 6 minutes to 1 minute left in your boil.
American Ale yeast US-05 Ale yeast (Safle or Wyeast – your choice)
Bottle Conditioned or bottled from your keg.
Variables
Relative Darkness of Crystal Malt
Your choice of which 3 hops you want to use.
Strike and sparge temps are your call (but you must record your target and actual temps)
Rules
(1) No brewing software may be used to calculate anything other than strike water temps and volumes.
(2) All hops are put into plastic keg cups in ½ oz increments. No scales, only eyeballing the quantity in each cup.
(3) The type of hop is written onto the bottom of every keg cup into which it is placed (you may want to do the labeling BEFORE dumping in the hops.
(4) Hop cups are randomized on your counter/brewing table
(5) After each hop addition, the brewer must record which hop was added and when. After your 10 minute hop addition, you should have 10 cups left. The brewer must roll a die ten times and record the roll. The brewer must add one half-ounce of hops at every incremental time left in the boil specified by the dice.
The number rolled on the dice specified the minutes left in the boil you add a half-ounce cup.
For instance, if your dice looked the picture below, the hop additions would be:
1 cup with 6 minutes left in the boil (1 six rolled)
2 cups with 5 minutes left in the boil (2 fives rolled)
2 cups with 4 minutes left in the boil (2 fours rolled)
2 cups with 3 minutes left in the boil (2 threes rolled)
1 cup with 2 minutes left in the boil (1 twos rolled)
1 cups with 1 minute left in the boil (2 one rolled)
It brewed mine last night and the whole experience should yield some interesting results. Each participant is to bring a six-pack for each other guy so we'll all bring and go home with beer.
The name of the contest is the PhuckenTed Spring IPA Challenge as I could hear my buddy Paul's reaction to the process sounding something like "$%(#ing Ted..."
Evaluation Day: Saturday, April 9th @ 2:00p (this is subject to change)
Location: TBD
All-Grain Requirements for 5 gallon batch:
10lbs. American Two-row
1lb. Specialty malt of your choice
1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter
8oz. specialty malt of your choice
8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)
Extract Requirements for 5 gallon batch:
EITHER (6.875lbs dry malt extract – pale malt)
OR (8.125lbs liquid malt extract – pale malt)
1lb. Specialty malt of your choice
1lb. Pale Malt – Maris Otter
8oz. specialty malt of your choice
8oz. of a crystal malt (Levibond: your choice)
*you can round up or down for the amount of extract, we don’t really care, but if you can get close, that’s RAD like Crew Jones.
Your Recipe Must include:
9oz of Hops. (2oz of these are left for a 7 day dry-hop)
Recipe must include THREE different kinds of hops.
Example:
3oz Cascade, 4oz Centennial, 2oz Simcoe = 9oz
Or: 7oz Cascade, 1oz Warrior, 1oz E. Kent Goldings = 9oz
2oz of dry hop must be chosen at random – and put in the freezer for dry hopping later
1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 60 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)
1oz hop addition (2 cups) at 10 minutes. (pick two cups, add them and write down what they were)
All subsequent hop additions added from 6 minutes to 1 minute left in your boil.
American Ale yeast US-05 Ale yeast (Safle or Wyeast – your choice)
Bottle Conditioned or bottled from your keg.
Variables
Relative Darkness of Crystal Malt
Your choice of which 3 hops you want to use.
Strike and sparge temps are your call (but you must record your target and actual temps)
Rules
(1) No brewing software may be used to calculate anything other than strike water temps and volumes.
(2) All hops are put into plastic keg cups in ½ oz increments. No scales, only eyeballing the quantity in each cup.
(3) The type of hop is written onto the bottom of every keg cup into which it is placed (you may want to do the labeling BEFORE dumping in the hops.
(4) Hop cups are randomized on your counter/brewing table
(5) After each hop addition, the brewer must record which hop was added and when. After your 10 minute hop addition, you should have 10 cups left. The brewer must roll a die ten times and record the roll. The brewer must add one half-ounce of hops at every incremental time left in the boil specified by the dice.
The number rolled on the dice specified the minutes left in the boil you add a half-ounce cup.
For instance, if your dice looked the picture below, the hop additions would be:
1 cup with 6 minutes left in the boil (1 six rolled)
2 cups with 5 minutes left in the boil (2 fives rolled)
2 cups with 4 minutes left in the boil (2 fours rolled)
2 cups with 3 minutes left in the boil (2 threes rolled)
1 cup with 2 minutes left in the boil (1 twos rolled)
1 cups with 1 minute left in the boil (2 one rolled)
It brewed mine last night and the whole experience should yield some interesting results. Each participant is to bring a six-pack for each other guy so we'll all bring and go home with beer.
