Specialty IPA: Rye IPA Denny Conn's Wry Smile Rye IPA

[Steveruch]

It's the right color!

Good to know.

 

[Steveruch]

Got it bottled, unfortunately only got T-A-D and three bottles

instead of the six I expected. The siphon quit a bit early and to restart it would have stirred up the trub.

 

[kevin58]

@Denny: Sorry if this has been asked and answered previously. When I first made your recipe late 2007 or early 2008 it was just Denny Conn's rye IPA. When did the wry smile thing start?

 

[Denny]

@Denny: Sorry if this has been asked and answered previously. When I first made your recipe late 2007 or early 2008 it was just Denny Conn's rye IPA. When did the wry smile thing start?

Actually, that's always been the official name. People just called it Denny Conn's Rye IPA.

 

[ratinator]

What's the SRM suppose to be? Punching the all grain ingredients into beersmith and I can't get that close to the 12.7 that is listed in orginal post. I am getting only 11.3, which normally I wouldn't care about a small change in SRM but that is basically the different between orangey and reddish.

I brew using a robobrew so I will more than likely do a partial mash with a couple lbs of lme because I will never comfortably be able to get all that grain in there.

 

[Denny]

Promash tells me 12.3

 

[Steveruch]

I am really pleased how this turned out.

 

[Denny]

I am really pleased how this turned out.

Great! I found that extract recipe virtually indistinguishable from the AG version.

 

[Steveruch]

Great! I found that extract recipe virtually indistinguishable from the AG version.

Really good to know.

 

[Steveruch]

Only a couple more pints left in the Tap-a-draft.

 

[Denny]

Only a couple more pints left in the Tap-a-draft.
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Looks just right and delicious!

 

[GCGBrewing]

One of the last pints left before my keg blows! Thanks again Denny, a quite tasty IPA!

 

[juggabrew]

I last brewed this in 2013. Now I have no interest in any IPA over 8% so I can still function. @Denny have you done this in a pale ale or lower ABV style? I like my IPAs closer to 6.5%

 

[kh54s10]

I last brewed this in 2013. Now I have no interest in any IPA over 8% so I can still function. @Denny have you done this in a pale ale or lower ABV style? I like my IPAs closer to 6.5%

Scale it down!!!

 

[Imhoppy]

Only a couple more pints left in the Tap-a-draft.
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Eating cookies with beer! Excellent. I'm not the only one.

 

[Denny]

I last brewed this in 2013. Now I have no interest in any IPA over 8% so I can still function. @Denny have you done this in a pale ale or lower ABV style? I like my IPAs closer to 6.5%

Yep. I just reduce everything proportionally to an OG of 1.060-65

 

[JLeuck64]

I made this for the first time today! I used Brewtarget software and BruN-water software to get set up for brew day. Hit my numbers mostly, but these first runs at a recipe is always to dial in the equipment with the numbers I was seeing today ( ; Looking forward to this batch becoming a very solid 7.5%ABV

 

[cody6173]

Just finished my first batch of this bad boy. Ended up at 1.072 biab. Cant wait to keg it.

 

[cody6173]

FG ended just a tad higher than I had hoped but otherwise a solid brew for the first go round

 

[ChuckS1]

Just got back from the LHBS down in Richmond and realized I forgot the Denny's Favorite yeast. I do have some WLP090 in the frig and an amber ale that should be ready for kegging in a couple of days that was fermented with Wyeast 1272. Anybody tried this with WLP090? Otherwise, I'll pitch it on the 1272 yeast cake. Thoughts?

 

[kh54s10]

How can you have a Denny's Wry Smile Rye IPA without Denny's Favorite 50 yeast?? I'm sure either of those yeasts would make a great beer. It would just be different. I haven't used either of those.

 

[ChuckS1]

How can you have a Denny's Wry Smile Rye IPA without Denny's Favorite 50 yeast?? I'm sure either of those yeasts would make a great beer. It would just be different. I haven't used either of those.

Pretty easily, I imagine. One of the local breweries gave me its rye IPA recipe and, lo and behold, it's Denny Conn's Wry Smile, brewed with WLP001.

 

[juggabrew]

I used imperial A15 independence. Of course I would’ve loved to use 1450 and I have before in previous batches. I’m all about the 200bil nowadays. I’d go back to wyeast if they got with the times.

 

[kh54s10]

How can you have a Denny's Wry Smile Rye IPA without Denny's Favorite 50 yeast?? I'm sure either of those yeasts would make a great beer. It would just be different. I haven't used either of those.

Pretty easily, I imagine. One of the local breweries gave me its rye IPA recipe and, lo and behold, it's Denny Conn's Wry Smile, brewed with WLP001.

 

[Denny]

Just got back from the LHBS down in Richmond and realized I forgot the Denny's Favorite yeast. I do have some WLP090 in the frig and an amber ale that should be ready for kegging in a couple of days that was fermented with Wyeast 1272. Anybody tried this with WLP090? Otherwise, I'll pitch it on the 1272 yeast cake. Thoughts?

1272 is what I used before I ran across 1450

 

[Denny]

Pretty easily, I imagine. One of the local breweries gave me its rye IPA recipe and, lo and behold, it's Denny Conn's Wry Smile, brewed with WLP001.

Then it's not my recipe.

 

[Denny]

I used imperial A15 independence. Of course I would’ve loved to use 1450 and I have before in previous batches. I’m all about the 200bil nowadays. I’d go back to wyeast if they got with the times.

Cell counts are a canard. Chris White said to me "homebrewers are too hung up on numbers"

 

[eric19312]

Cell counts are a canard. Chris White said to me "homebrewers are too hung up on numbers"

Didn’t he write a book with all sorts of directions about how and why to get the right cell counts?

 

[juggabrew]

Cell counts are a canard. Chris White said to me "homebrewers are too hung up on numbers"

Yea I feel the same to a point. But still, I’d rather pay the same price for double the amount.

Plus I don’t make starters to build cell counts. I just do a 1 liter starter to get the yeast pre gaming for the big show.

 

[Denny]

Didn’t he write a book with all sorts of directions about how and why to get the right cell counts?

Aimed at commercial brewers, as are all the AHA Ingredients series