First Brew (IPA) What can you tell me about it?

[Dagobah]

My first beer is fermenting right now. My local HBS put this together based on what I like to drink. It's an IPA, similar to a dogfish head 60 min. Partial grain boil with extract.

I've looked up the hops, but wondering what some experienced brewers could tell me about the specifics and what to expect here? Can't wait to try it.

Has been fermenting like crazy since about 12 hours in. Plan on racking to secondary in about week, and then bottling a few weeks after that. It's a steady 70 degrees in the house.


Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 3 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 6 gal bucket
Secondary: 6 gal carboy
Bottling Volume: 6.00 gal
Estimated OG: 1.063
Estimated EG: 1.014
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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9.6 lb Light Malt Extract
9/10 cup Corn Sugar (priming)

.6 lb Light Crystal Malt
.6 lb Cara-Pils Malt
1.2 lb Two Row Pale Malt
1.2 lb Light Munich Malt

.6 tsp Burton Water Salts (pre-boil)

1 oz Nugget (Bittering)
.5 oz Palisade (Flavor)
.5 oz Amarillo (Flavor)
.5 oz Palisade (Aroma)
.5 oz Amarillo (Aroma)
1 oz Liberty (Dry Hop) (3-4 days pre-bottling)

2 x Safale US-05

 

[rcsoccer]

Sounds like it will be a very good beer! The Amarillo hops will give it a grapefruity aroma and the palisades will give it a floral aroma. I would suggest dryhopping with 1 oz of cascade or citra for even more citrusy flavor.

Good luck!

 

[BrewerJack]

+1 on the dry hopping. Looks like its going to be a fairly standard (but delicious) IPA. Look forward to how you like it.

 

[Dog House Brew]

I like to dry hop for 10 days. When I transfer to the bottling bucked I put a couple smal hop bags on the end of my hose to catch all the hop debris. Works for pellets and cones. Looks good, and the good ones never last long enough.