Specialty IPA: White IPA Chainbreaker White IPA Clone

[kdw2pd]

A heads-up: my girlfriend and I were at the Portland Deschutes restaurant over Christmas break. After asking, the brewer told our server "to look at Wyeast Forbidden Fruit."

I actually grew up the bottling yeast from Chainbreaker dregs before finding this out... then dropped my damn mason jar on the way out of the fridge on brew day. RIP Chainbreaker-inspired White IPA.

 

[tellyho]

Brewed this recipe (not the OP, but the other one on the first page) recently and it's very tasty. No idea how it stacks up to Chainbreaker, as I haven't had one, but it will likely be a repeat. The only issue I have is IBUs - I think it's pretty mellow for an IPA. I'd probably bump up the bittering hops some and mash at a little higher temp to give it some more kick. Probably wouldn't retain the tart Wit aspect at that point, though....

 

[Shenanigans]

Brewed this recipe (not the OP, but the other one on the first page) recently and it's very tasty. No idea how it stacks up to Chainbreaker, as I haven't had one, but it will likely be a repeat. The only issue I have is IBUs - I think it's pretty mellow for an IPA. I'd probably bump up the bittering hops some and mash at a little higher temp to give it some more kick. Probably wouldn't retain the tart Wit aspect at that point, though....

I brewed it again last night.
Last time I stuck to that recipe too.
This time I added 5 grams extra Columbus at 60min and also added some Columbus to the 15 and 5 min additions.
So it will be heading for 70 IBUs with an OG of 1.062 hopefully it will still be well balanced. I guess I'll see in a month or so.

 

[terrenum]

Planning on brewing this soon. Not sure about the Corn Sugar addition at 30 min. What does it add? a few more gravity point? I may omit this unless you think it would be a deal breaker!!

Thanks for sharing; sounds like a great beer