This is one of the best DIPA's I've ever had... The crazy thing is that it drinks like a 5% beer even though it comes in a 9%. I had it at the Brooklyn Brewery tasting room so it was about as fresh as you could get, and the aroma was just amazing... like I'm standing over the brew kettle right when I dumped a bunch of hops in.
Based on the info given on
Brooklyn Brewery's website, they use 9 hop varieties and they use 5 lb. hops / barrel which translates to ~13 oz./5 gallon batch. Also, I read on
this website that they use 8 different hops in the dry hopping.
Brooklyn is reporting IBUs of only 53, which seems ridiculously low, and I had a hard time figuring out a recipe with 13 oz. of hops and that low an IBU level.
But, here is my attempt at a clone recipe... Any critiques on this before I try to brew it? I tried to keep the citrusy hops toward the end of the boil because in my recollection I wasn't picking up a lot of English hop aroma. Also, I'm using cane sugar to help dry it out.
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 7.74 gal
Post Boil Volume: 6.24 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.078 SG
Estimated Color: 8.0 SRM
Estimated IBU: 70.7 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 70.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 77.1 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
6 lbs 12.0 oz Maris Otter (Crisp) (4.0 SRM) Grain 1 43.5 %
6 lbs 12.0 oz Pilsner (Weyermann) (1.7 SRM) Grain 2 43.5 %
8.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM) Grain 3 3.2 %
8.0 oz Carapils (Briess) (1.5 SRM) Grain 4 3.2 %
1 lbs Cane (Beet) Sugar (0.0 SRM) Sugar 6
6.5 %
0.50 oz Northdown [8.50 %] - First Wort 90.0 min Hop 5 14.4 IBUs
0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 7 6.5 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 8 7.9 IBUs
0.50 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Boil 45.0 Hop 9 6.6 IBUs
0.50 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Boil 45.0 min Hop 10 7.3 IBUs
0.50 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 11 8.7 IBUs
0.50 oz Challenger [7.50 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 12 6.5 IBUs
0.50 oz Palisade [7.50 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 13 6.5 IBUs
1.00 oz Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 14 6.3 IBUs
1.50 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 min Hop 15 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 min Hop 16 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Aroma Steep 0.0 m Hop 17 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) [124. Yeast 18 -
1.00 oz Ahtanum [6.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 19 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Centennial [10.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 20 0.0 IBUs
1.00 oz Simcoe [13.00 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 21 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Challenger [7.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 22 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 23 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00 %] - Dry Hop 0 Hop 24 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Palisade [7.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 25 0.0 IBUs
0.25 oz Willamette [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 0.0 Days Hop 26 0.0 IBUs
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out
Total Grain Weight: 15 lbs 8.0 oz
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 18.13 qt of water at 163.5 F 148.0 F 90 min
Sparge: Fly sparge with 4.95 gal water at 168.0 F