Brewing an APA/IPA tomorrow… Prepped the grains last night (measured out) and will mill them tonight and get all my equipment ready.
Recipe is like 79% 2-row, 8% vienna, 10% white wheat and like 3% crystal 20. Using something like 0.8oz of carafa III for color only at mash out to raise SRM by a few points.
Will be using Columbus, Chinook, Mosaic and Citra for the hopping. No hop stand this time around, just a late addition (5min left in boil). My last few IPA’s have been turbid and never clear, even with US-05 or S-04, which I believe is due to the hop stands I have been doing… So trying this one without!
Pitching 1056 and will ferment at 64F. Made a 1.5L starter for it and currently cold crashing that.
Using my most aggressive water profile to date for this one… Have not gone beyond 300ppm sulfates yet on previous IPA’s, but doing 350 this time (Cl is at like 26, so big SO4:Cl ratio!). Previous IPA was 300/26 or so.
Target specs are 5.8% ABV and 55 IBU.
Following this APA I have back to back lagers ready to go (Dunkel and Festbier)