Specialty IPA: Rye IPA Bee Cave Brewery Rye IPA

[DSmith]

What would you suggest for a yeast?

S05, Wyeast 1056 & WLP001 are pretty interchangable. Use the one you know best. Edwort's recipes seem to be written around keeping things simple, like using dry yeast vs a liquid starter.

 

[rico567]

My Spring batch of this great beer is on deck for tomorrow morning. Starting early, which is good, since it's a 90 min. boil....

 

[DustBow]

I've always just boiled it for 60 - it's a great recipe

 

[Yrogerg1089]

I brewed a batch of this about 3.5 weeks ago and have had it on gas for 5 days or so. Had a glass last night and Wow! This is a good beer! Great, but not overwhelming, spices from the rye and Chinook. 10 out of 10 will brew again!

 

[DSmith]

I took the original recipe and made the following changes:

American 2-Row Malt
Simpson's English Crystal 60 Malt
Mashed 152F for 60 min
60 Minute Boil
Wyeast 1056
Dryhopped with 1 oz of Chinook in a 5.5 gal batch, added to secondary 5 days before bottling.
OG = 1.064, FG = 1.013

This will absolutely get brewed again.

 

[jglazer]

Perfect, I have Tettnang and Cascade plants growing really well this season and this may be the fresh hop brew!

I also have a friend who is raising bees. Anyone have ANY idea if adding some honey to this recipe is a good idea and how it would impact the overall flavor??

 

[frolfer]

I brewed this beer and enjoy it, but would like to try it again with hops other than Chinook. Something about that bite bugs me.

What would you think of the following hop schedule?
1 oz. German Tettnang FWH 4.4% (First Wort Hopped)
1 oz. Nugget 60 min 10%
0.5 oz. Centennial 40 min 10%
0.5 oz. Centennial 5 min 10%
Dry Hop 0.5 oz. Cascade

 

[jglazer]

Edwort, almost all of your recipes call for ~30 days in fermenter, is this recipe only 10 because its an IPA and you want to drink it as fresh as possible or is there any other reason why this one is only in primary for only 10 days?

Also - would adding some American C hop varieties as a dry hop addition compliment this beer or would the flavors clash? I am going to brew this for a pig pickin and I know a lot of people there love the west coast style ipa aroma so I was going to trying and alter this recipe to make it a bit more of a people pleaser but still have a nice spicy rye malt backbone.

 

[jglazer]

Whelp, I brewed this last night and it went from following your recipe exactly to, "ehhh I have .5 oz of this in the freezer, .5 oz of that..." and I added a plethora of hops @ 0. Lets hope it turns out well!

 

[Brizzo]

Is galena or nugget or a combo of both acceptable as a sub for chinook? Lhbs did not have cent, columbus or chinook

 

[rico567]

Is galena or nugget or a combo of both acceptable as a sub for chinook? Lhbs did not have cent, columbus or chinook

According to this:

http://www.brew365.com/hop_substitution_chart.php

....yep, yep, and why not.

 

[Brizzo]

Brewed this Sunday, everything went well except I had lower efficiency then usual, somewhere 65% area and boiled off more then usual so I had to top off. I fwh with mount hood and subd galena and nugget for chinook. I just mixed up the two hops and did the additions on schedule.

 

[Brizzo]

Just triedmy hydro sample. Finished at 1.018 and
The taste is great. Smooth up front and the rye hits you in the aftertaste. The spiciness is awesome. I bet this would be good dry hopped with simcoe or citra

 

[Daves69]

Just over 3 weeks old and a week on gas, I rushed this beer to free up my fermentation chamber. It's still a little green but not bad I got anxious and pulled a draft, this was poured via a Guinness Stout Tap using CO2.

 

[Brizzo]

I just kegged this using 1oz Columbus to dry hop in the. Keg. Tastes great flat anxious to try in2weeks

 

[rico567]

You will not be disappointed. This is one of the beers I keep on hand year-round.

 

[Brizzo]

I can see why this is on rotation, one week on gas, not fully carbed but this is amazing! I will do this guy again!

 

[Malty_Dog]

Want to do a rye, its down to this or a rye pale ale, think I might just pull the trigger and brew this one on Sat. Pretty excited!

 

[Brizzo]

I highly recommend this one, itsnot even fully carbed but it is amazing. Might be the only ipa I ever brew

 

[Daves69]

Brewed on 5/19/13 tapped the keg around June 1st, was not really super excited about the flavors but after reading the whole thread I remember someone saying around week 8 or something magical happens to this beer! Well today is about week nine and almost four weeks since I tasted it last and wow! It has cleared up and the flavors are spot on and very complex!

 

[Malty_Dog]

Well long brew day w/kids stuff and company mixed in. Just pitched the yeast on this so will post back with results. OG a tad low at 1.060.

 

[NewJersey]

any opinions on what this would taste like if i kept the grain bill and yeast the same, but used all falconer's flight for hops?
i'm tempted to try this tomorrow

 

[EdWort]

Just over 3 weeks old and a week on gas, I rushed this beer to free up my fermentation chamber. It's still a little green but not bad I got anxious and pulled a draft, this was poured via a Guinness Stout Tap using CO2.

Nicely done! Give it some time to mature and let us know how it is then.

 

[Malty_Dog]

Eight days in primary so far, airlock almost totally inactive at this point. Have had at a steady 65 - 66 in swamp cooler despite heatwave. Will be letting sit in primary (alongside another beer brewed same day) for a total of 3 weeks, then bottle. Any recs on vols CO2 for priming? Really looking forward to this one.

 

[Malty_Dog]

Went with 2.4 vol CO2. Now for the hard part - waiting.

 

[DSmith]

Went with 2.4 vol CO2. Now for the hard part - waiting.

I may have 2 bottles left out of a batch that was bottled 3 months ago. They've only been getting better so your waiting will be well worth it.

 

[Malty_Dog]

3 Week primary, 2 weeks in bottles, last 48 hrs in fridge = delicious. Spicy, malty, just like Edwort described. Sorry for poor photo - its an old phone. If its this good now I can't imagine what it will be like in the coming weeks.

 

[TBaGZ]

Was hoping to brew this over the weekend, but it didn't happen. Looks like my starter will have to hang out in the fridge until next weekend.

 

[Gmull70]

I've brewed this beer at least 5 times. All ways a crowd pleaser.

 

[TBaGZ]

It's been going "blub blub blub" since early yesterday morning (brewed Friday night). OG was 1.072 so a little high, but who doesn't like a little extra gravity??