I created an IPA recipe that was to have ~105 IBU's. I drank it last night, and though good, it just wasn't as hoppy as I had figured, though it did have a great hop aroma.
Yooper explained to me that because I use a large top off (~2 gals) that it effects the IBU's, and since that is roughly 1/3 of my volume it reduces the IBU's by 1/3. But if I take a third from that I should still have nearly 70 IBU's.
Here's what I did for my 6 gal partial mash/partial boil:
6 lbs golden light LME (FO)
3.5 lbs 2-row
1 lb soft white wheat berries
0.5 lb crystal 20
0.5 lb crystal 60
0.75 lb sugar
0.25 lb carafoam
0.5 Warrior (16%) @ 60 mins
0.3 oz Bravo (15.1%), 0.75 oz Simcoe (13%), 0.75 oz Columbus (15.2%), and 1.5 oz Centennial (10.4%) @ 20 mins
0.3 oz Bravo, 0.75 oz Simcoe, 0.75 oz Columbus, and 0.5 oz of Centennial @ 5 mins
0.4 oz Bravo, 0.5 oz Simcoe, and 0.5 oz Columbus for a 7 day dry hop
US-05
This seems more like a 40-50 IBU beer.
Yooper explained to me that because I use a large top off (~2 gals) that it effects the IBU's, and since that is roughly 1/3 of my volume it reduces the IBU's by 1/3. But if I take a third from that I should still have nearly 70 IBU's.
Here's what I did for my 6 gal partial mash/partial boil:
6 lbs golden light LME (FO)
3.5 lbs 2-row
1 lb soft white wheat berries
0.5 lb crystal 20
0.5 lb crystal 60
0.75 lb sugar
0.25 lb carafoam
0.5 Warrior (16%) @ 60 mins
0.3 oz Bravo (15.1%), 0.75 oz Simcoe (13%), 0.75 oz Columbus (15.2%), and 1.5 oz Centennial (10.4%) @ 20 mins
0.3 oz Bravo, 0.75 oz Simcoe, 0.75 oz Columbus, and 0.5 oz of Centennial @ 5 mins
0.4 oz Bravo, 0.5 oz Simcoe, and 0.5 oz Columbus for a 7 day dry hop
US-05
This seems more like a 40-50 IBU beer.