American IPA Bee Cave Brewery IPA

[txcop]

What temp do you dry hop in the keg? Thanks Ed for this easy recipe.

 

[soup67]

I recall seeing "room temperature" somewhere back int he thread.

 

[EdWort]

What temp do you dry hop in the keg? Thanks Ed for this easy recipe.

Room temp for 10 days.

 

[jgoette]

JUST finished brewing this up. My OG was 1.079, but I came a little shy of 5 gals (I scaled down to 5 gals btw... )

I think I may just need a little more water to hit 5 gal after a 90 min boil

 

[HawkATP]

I have 11 gallons of this ready to go into the kegs from primary for dry hopping. My question is what do you set the psi at for the kegs while they are dry hopping for 10 days at room temperature? Standard 2.5 volumes or a lower psi?

edit:
btw I've never dry hopped before, so this is my first time

 

[DustBow]

at room temp, I think most of us are just conditioning or dry hopping, not actually carbing up the beer. Seal it up with a good 30 or so psi boost, that will at least get you a little head start on carbing before you chill it down and put it on the gas permanently

 

[USMC_Brewer]

I am doing my first brew this Saturday and was thinking about making this. I want o make 10 gal though so please correct me if Im wrong but this is what I need

22# Pale ( What kind of Pale?)
2# Munich
24 oz. Crystal 60L

Single Infusion for 90 minutes at 154 degrees.

2 oz. Warrior 60 minutes
2 oz. Centennial 15 minutes
2 oz. Centennial 5 minutes

Also I was going to BIAB with a 15 gallon kettle. Would that be big enough to hold all of the water and grains?

Sorry for all the dumb questions

 

[duffman2]

That looks about right but that would be for an 11g batch. As far as the biab I haven't done that yet but I'm pretty sure you might have some problems with a 15 gallon kettle. I don't think there's any way you'll get ~14 gallons of water and 20+ pounds of grain to fit in there. You could do a single batch though.

But this is a great beer for your first brew so good luck. And Semper Fi to you

Cheers

 

[TheSeether]

Use 6.6 pounds of DME and steep the Munich and the Crystal.

Couldn't the same effect be had steeping a Crystal Munich malt and likely get more fermentables out of it? Would it be worthwhile to BIAB partial mash 1# of munich malt grain then move on with the extract boil? just trying to figure out the best way to include the Munich element and stay as close to the original specs while using extract for the heavy lifting.

Thanks.

 

[Amity]

Brewed this recipe today, 10 gallon batch. Looks great! Got 83% efficiency, so we ended up at 1.072. Oops. Really looking forward to tasting this!

I love Centennial hops.

 

[snowninja1]

Just brewed this grain bill but used Amarillo and Simcoe ....

 

[hops2it]

I'm going to give this a shot using DME in place of the grain. Was planning to keep everything else the same. Full boil for 5.5 gal batch. Using the recommended 6.6 lb of DME from page 2, things come out differently in Beersmith. Why is that? If there is a known conversion from AG to DME how come it never works out right in the software?

Beersmith reports:

OG 1.054
FG 1.014
SRM 11.4
IBU 70.6
ABV 5.22%

What should I adjust to get closer to the original recipe?

 

[snowninja1]

I brewed using this grain bill but used amirillo cimcoe and cascade l..and bumped up the quantity............. ....1oz amarillo 60 min
1oz simcoe 60min
1oz simcoe 15 min
1oz cascade 10 min
1oz amarillo fo
1oz cascade fo
2oz cascade 7 days dry hop
I know this strongly deviates from the hop bill but let me tell you it is delicious!! im stoked the color is beautiful dark apricot and the hops have an earthy piney and resinous quality ..not catty or too fruity ....mann good stuff thanks all.!!

 

[kjones]

Room temp for 10 days.

so, you cold crash and keg, but yet after its in the keg in warms up to room temp for 10 days. This temperature change won't affect flavor at all?

 

[EdWort]

so, you cold crash and keg, but yet after its in the keg in warms up to room temp for 10 days. This temperature change won't affect flavor at all?

I cold crash to help the yeast flocculate out, then the room temp for 10 days just helps condition the beer. It does make a difference. Just ask BierMuncher.

 

[Wingfan13]

Ed, I too live in Austin and was wondering if you are doing anything to your water ? Are you just using tap water to brew this ? I may give this recipe a try this weekend.

Thanks !

 

[EdWort]

Ed, I too live in Austin and was wondering if you are doing anything to your water ? Are you just using tap water to brew this ? I may give this recipe a try this weekend.

I have LCRA water and I use a Culligan RV water filter for my water. I add Five Star's 5.2 Buffer for my mash, but that's it. Nothing else.

 

[althea]

I brewed this on 7-17-2011 and bottled it 8-28-2011. I tried it this past weekend thinking it would still be undercarbed and needing much more time. It was absolutely delicious, and will only get better I'm sure after a few more weeks in the bottle. This is the best beer I've made, and is an outstanding IPA. I'm physched! I'm thinking of brewing it again asap just to keep it in the pipeline.

 

[jmfc8237]

Ed. Thanks for posting this recipe. Did it to the T and man was it good. This is going to be one of my new favorites in my rotation!!

 

[bjohnson29]

I brewed a variation of this on Labor Day (poor grain inventory management, so I adjusted)

10# 2-row
1# wheat
1# munich
.6# 20L
Same hop schedule

I know the color will be lighter, but what can I expect in terms of taste?

 

[nyer]

I'm brewing this again tomorrow morning. In the past I just used whatever AA hops I had. Since this has become my favorite beer I want to be able to repeat it every time so I need to get the hop numbers right to get to 80 IBU's. My warrior hops are 16.7 and my centennials are 10.3. I only have 1 oz. of warrior and 3 of the centennials. I have an ounce of cascades at 7.4 that I could use to bump up the numbers to try to get to 80 IBU's. Should I split the cascades up evenly across the 60m, 15m and 5m additions to do this?

 

[GySgtLynn]

Love this recepie. Had to make some mods though. My LHBS didnt have warrior so I substituted Columbus and added another oz of centinnel and adjusted my hop schedule as follows. 1 oz columbus at 90 1 oz centinnel at 60, 10, and flameout (1oz centinnel dry hop). Best beer I have made to date. Thanks for sharing the receipie.

 

[r8rphan]

Made this beer today...

Screwed something up in the mash badly.. Measured as it went into the carboys..

1.042 @70 degrees... This is gonna be 10G of some seriously bitter light ale..

I might have to mix it glass by glass with something else to drink it...

Anyways.. I'll figure out what I did wrong with mash.. and try again in the near future...

I suspect my temp was too low on the sparge...

Oh well, at least I get to test out my new Fermentation Chamber!

I'm not sure what kind of beer this is gonna be, but at least it will be beer!

 

[r8rphan]

I rinsed out the baster I was using to extract the sample in star-san between each time I stuck it down into the wort to take a sample.. I had to dip it four or five times, to get enough.. There is a possibility that some star-san solution was left in the baster each time, which would definitely skew the readings..

The wort did not look or smell that lite when it was in the collection buckets or in the keggle before the boil...

So, I can 'hope'.. I just had a diluted sample...

 

[r8rphan]

Well, I think I know the problem.. I screwed up the recipe in the software...

Is there anything I can add to the ferment to bump up the gravity? Can DME be added? Maybe some corn sugar or corn syrup?

 

[r8rphan]

Naw.. That ain't it.. too big a drop off... Either the sample was diluted, or the efficiency was way low.. or some of both..

I guess I'll just wait and see, and if it's undrinkable, I'll have to make something 'strong' to blend with it...

Dang, I needed a quick beer, and now it might be a long one.. and my carboys are now in use...

Oh well, at least the fermentation chamber is rockin'

 

[burninmules]

I brewed this a few weeks back. I used Amarillo instead of Centennials and Wyeast 1332 northwest ale yeast. It is in the keg carbing up right now. The sample I took was awesome!! This could possibly be the best beer I have ever brewed.

 

[america]

Has anyone tried to enter this into Brewtarget? It says to use less hops and that my IBUs are still at ~120!

My hop bill looks like this:
Warrior - 16%
Centennial for boil - 8.1%
Centennial for dry hop - 10.3%

Should I take the software suggestion and do less hops? It calls for .9oz of each hop...

 

[wedge421]

This is the one beer on HBT that I have brewed more then once. Such a quick and simple brew that comes out awesome each time! You cant go wrong with any of Ed's recipes

 

[midfielder5]

Has anyone tried to enter this into Brewtarget? It says to use less hops and that my IBUs are still at ~120!

My hop bill looks like this:
Warrior - 16%
Centennial for boil - 8.1%
Centennial for dry hop - 10.3%

Should I take the software suggestion and do less hops? It calls for .9oz of each hop...

You will note that the recipe in the OP does not state AA% for the hops. Your Warrior at 16% is crazy strong. You could probably go 1/2 oz to get it at the 80 IBUs spec'd.